Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov. The school should learn to think (№ 284341)

Nature, it is obliged only to the brain - the organ of thought. The ability to think with this brain not only "develops" (in the sense of "perfected"), but occurs for the first time only with the inclusion of a person to social-human culture, to knowledge. The same, however, as the ability to walk on two legs, which man is "by nature" also is not. It's the same "skill" as all other human abilities. However, if you use their hind limbs for bipedal locomotion of a child teaches a mother to use the brain for thinking is able to teach and not every professional is a teacher. But smart enough and careful mother does, as a rule, much better than another teacher. She never give up on difficult concerns associated with the education of the "mind" of a little man under that easy for the mentally lazy "educator" with the excuse that the child "from nature, from the birth of the" unable to...