An essential aim of Education is to provide the pupil with the freedom and safety to process mistakes and misunderstandings without shame.
The teacher’s role (in so much as teaching can be practiced) is to share a wholehearted “living experience” (as opposed to inert information) with the pupil so as to guide, encourage, and clarify the processes of self education, without fear.
The pupil’s fundamental experience must be rooted in a pure discipline that fosters and emphasizes a robust autonomy exercised through the instinctual skills of observation, organization, and inference; in acceptance and awareness of their own developing thoughts, curiosities, feelings, skills, and manifestations in the making of artifacts; in cooperation to the Good service of their many Life Relationships.
– JC Heisler