I experienced more learning and exploration on the playground at age eight than any other time I can recall in my life. ... The latent sexual tension had already started to surface as boys and girls began to notice the differences between one another, and began to act according to those differences. ...
The whole function of education is not to put knowledge into the soul, but to bring out the best things that are latent in the soul, and to do so by directing it to the right objects. ... The theory of Reminiscence which is expounded by Plato, says that our soul has seen in a former life all things which it learns in this world, & are learning is a mere remembrance of that life, which flashes to the mind when some fact of an object stares what we may call an association of ideas. ...
