ABSTRACT
… the education we dispense falls into three fairly clear categories. In the first place, there are the loaves, that is to say the facts that the child has to learn: two and two make four, the Spanish Armada was defeated in 1588, a wild rose has five petals and so on. The characteristics of this kind of learning is that the child gets it right or wrong, and we can measure his [sic] accuracy. Then there is a category where the loaves and the hyacinths are mixed. A child learns the Ode to Autumn’ or he dances a Highland Fling. He can get the words of the Ode right or wrong, and he can get the steps right or wrong, and this is a matter of loaves; but how expressively he recites or how elegantly he dances, the zest, the eagerness and artistry which he brings to these activities is a matter of hyacinths.
