ABSTRACT
In almost all statements in recent years by professors of education, writers, scientists and other public figures about the need for change and flexibility in education, there has been contained some diatribe against the iniquities of the school system that demands conformity and parrotting rather than thinking, and against the teachers who are hidebound in their time-worn attitudes and neither recognize nor wish to recognize the creativity in front of their eyes. Yet what could be more creative than helping children to grow in maturity, to acquire skills of brain as well as of hand, to become familiar with and make their own some of the accomplishments of civilization? Potentially, at least, the teacher is a creator and his material is the minds of children.
