What do I do Monday

This is a book for teachers, for parents, for children or friends of children, for anyone who cares about education. It is about learning and above all some of the ways in which, in school or out, we might help children learn better and perhaps learn better ourselves. For years, like many people, I thought of learning as collecting facts or ideas. It was something like eating, or being given medicine, or getting an injection at the doctor's. But from my own experience, and that of children, and from books, I have come to see learning very differently, as a kind of growing, a moving and expanding of the person into the world around him. In the first part of this book I will try to share my vision of learning. To many, these ideas will be very new, strange, puzzling, or even wrong. The usual ways of ordering ideas in a book will not work very well here. These are what we might call logical orders, the way w