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Creation of Mindless Beings
“...public schools where the children are repressed in the spontaneous expression of their personality till they are almost like dead beings... like butterflies mounted on pins, fastened each to his place, the desk, spreading the useless wings of barren and meaningless knowledge which they have acquired� (Montessori 286). Mass education has become as routine in our lives as death and taxes, but does it work? In reading the essays Montaigne’s “Of the Education of the Children�, Emerson’s “On Education�, Montessori’s “The Montessori Method� and Frieire’s “The Banking of Education� has enlightened me on the shortcomings of mass education. Even though they all wrote and lived in different era’s and locations all over the world these essays all have various connections to each other. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne lived in the 16th century in France where he learned to speak and read in Latin because that was the language of......

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