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In the process of learning, children should be allowed some independence.
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adapted excerpt from "Some Rights of Children as Persons" in School Education
by Charlotte Mason
Personal Initiative in Work
In their work, too, we are too apt to interfere with children. We all know the delight with which any scope for personal initiative is hailed,
the pleasure children take in doing anything which they may do their own way, anything, in fact, which allows room for skill of hand, play
of fancy, or development of thought. With our present theories of education, it seems that we cannot give much scope for personal
initiative. There is so much task-work to be done, so many things that must be, not learned, but learned about that it is only now and the
a child gets the chance to produce himself in his work. But let us use such opportunities as come in our way.
A very interesting and instructive educational experiment on these lines has lately been tried in Hackney, where Mr. Sargent got
together some eighty boys and girls under the conditions of an ordinary elementary school..... The results seem to have been purely
delightful; the children developed an amazing capacity for drawing, perhaps because so soon as they were familiar with the outlines oft
flower and foliage of a given plant, for example, they were encouraged to form designs with these elements. The really beautiful floral
designs produced by these girls and boys, after quite a short art training, would surprise parents whose children have been taught
drawing for years with no evident result. These children developed themselves a great deal on their school magazine also, for which the
wrote tales and poems, and essays, not prescribed work, but self-chosen. The children's thought was stimulated, and they felt they had
in them to say much about a doll's ball, Peter, the school cat, or whatever other subject struck their fancy. "They felt their feet" as the