ABSTRACT
The four stages of educational development have been distinguished from one another as clearly as possible, and it is now necessary to complicate the picture somewhat. Attempting to hurry children to more mature stages has the bad effect of providing inadequate fulfillment of earlier stages. Knowledge that serves as an aliment to the process of educational development may provide an aesthetic pleasure. Educational development does not proceed by gradual accumulation of knowledge and understanding. Learning that is entertaining usually provides an uncomplicated pleasure and is generally easily accessible to students. Human beings by nature have the ability to create and live in an undetermined variety of forms of culture; what the limits of that ability are is a question that fascinates anthropologists. The interaction of human nature with this culture will lead, if the humans are to fully master the forms of thought, perception, and expression of the culture, to their going through mythic, romantic, philosophic, and ironic stages.
