often, books need not be used at all

Page 58 often, books need not be used at all. One learns dancing by dancing; one mornings to play the loot by playing the loot. The same is true of thinking, and indeed of living. Every experience can be a learning opportunity: " a page's prank, a servant's blunder, a remark at a table and quote The child should learn to question everything: to pass everything through a sieve and large nothing in his head on mirror authority and trust. Traveling is useful: so is socializing which teaches the child to be open to others and to adapt to anyone he finds around him. Eccentricities should be ironed out early, because they make it difficult to get on with others. All this stands in the way of good relationships and of good living. It can be avoided, for young human beings are malleable. At least up to a point. You cannot really change inborn disposition. You can guide it or train it, but not get rid of it. There is no one who, if you listens to himself, does not discover in himself a pattern all his own, a ruling pattern, which struggles against education .

— from Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit) · How to Live by Sarah Bakewell

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And learn the way children do, by doing. You learn dancing by dancing and the lute by playing the lute; the same is true of thinking and of living, where every experience can be a lesson if you let it. Children, in fact, are the world's great natural learners — fascinated, experimental, endlessly curious — and the tragedy of much schooling is that it trains the why out of them, dangling grades and if-then rewards until they no longer know why they are doing what they do. […] Trust the daily over the dramatic. What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while; automate the routine so your energy is free for what matters; and master the basics rather than chasing shortcuts. Stay a student of the world. Read widely to borrow other people's experience; learn by doing, not only by reading; ask those ahead of you what they wish they'd known; and question everything, passing each claim through a sieve before you keep it. To my children, and to theirs: — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)

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