Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information. β¨ William James (1983). Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals, p.90, Harvard University Press
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