Quote#Education
The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for…
Quote byRobert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell · 1857–1941
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Scouter (January, 1912).
English (original)
The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.
— Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
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