Ralph Waldo Emerson's Views On Education

In the educational piece called, Education, Ralph Waldo Emerson dives into the topic on how he thinks one should be properly educated. Not only does Emerson talk about how he thinks a child should be educated, he also dives into the the reasons why the education system is not adequate for young minds. If I was responsible for the education of a child, I would use the method of a guiding hand as my guiding principle. Additionally, I would also make the child have individual instruction in order to have an individualized learning approach instead of a one size fits all approach.
Upon reading the piece by Emerson, I felt as if his most preferred method was to use the guiding hand method. What I mean by a guiding hand method is that I would not force the child to learn subjects and then force repetition upon them. By forcing learning and then incorporating repetition, one is then causing more harm then good for students. The child I would be educating would only get burned out by education they do not want to learn. An effect in getting burned out would then be losing the enthusiasm to learn at an astronomical rate. A child cannot be
Every student is not the same and by making all students learn the same way is not the correct way to go about it. Why should the child I am responsible for educating continue to be pushed along with the crowd in a subject they are struggling? Vice versa, why should the child I am responsible for educating be held back in a course they are highly knowledgeable in. The effects of the one size fits all approach is outdated and causes much more harm than good. Being pushed along in a struggling course would make the child lose enthusiasm quickly and being held back would only keep the child from reaching their full potential. An individualized approach is an overlook guiding principle that every student should have the option to