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L'Amour
on Education
"Acquiring an education has many aspects, of which school is only one,
and the present approach is, I believe, the wrong one. Without claiming to have all the
answers, I can only express my feeling that our methods of instruction do much to hamper a
child in learning. Our approach is pedestrian. We teach a child to creep when he should be
running; education becomes a task rather than excitement. Yet each of us can remember one
or two teachers who made learning an adventure, which it surely is. Personally, I believe
children should be taught to see, to observe, and to subject what they have seen to
analysis, and this in the earliest grades. Very young children will often learn
 a difficult subject easily unless someone tells them it is 'hard.' To me
it also seems obvious that a child should be taught some methods of reasoning, methods of
scientific investigation. Children have an innate feeling for logic and, given the
opportunity, would learn quickly. Such instruction would be unthinkable in any country not
a democracy, and if carried out in a democracy it might clear the air of a lot of loose
thinking, loose public speaking, and the kind of questionable statements that fill the air
during political and other campaigns. The first generations of parents who had such
children would have a difficult time but would find their own thinking undergoing drastic
change. We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and
that is something altogether different. Many of the political ideas that have disturbed
the world in the past fifty years could not exist in such an atmosphere."
~ Louis L'Amour
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