The great
Transcendentalist who wrote perceives in the bureaucracies of public
school the "costly machinery against nature" in which the modes of education aim to
save labor and expedite learning rather than exercising the patience of Nature:
Whilst we all know in our own experience and apply natural methods
in our own business -- in education our common sense fails us, and we are continually trying
costly machinery against nature, in patent schools and academies and in great colleges and
universities.
When the teacher must watch the clock,
teach several classes in which the "dullard" is mixed in with the "genius,"
there can no true learning, Emerson contends. For, there is no mechanical method that can
nurture both minds at the same time. Emerson states that the following of nature
...involves at once immense claims on the...
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