Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.
Interpretation
Working with children fosters democratic values due to their openness and lack of prejudice.
This quote emphasizes the idea that children are instinctively more accepting and open-minded than adults, which makes them ideal candidates for instilling the values of democracy. Since children have yet to develop biases or prejudices, educating them on democratic principles allows for a more genuine and effective cultivation of these ideals in society.
In practice
In a talk about influencing future generations, one might say, 'As Margaret Halsey points out, working with children is crucial for educating democracy.'
The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.
The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive
I see it as my job to try to make history to be a popular thing. The longer I keep going the less weird it will be to be a female historian.
I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them.
The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.
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