"Let us suppose that, arrived at his[chair of science at a university] post, he is shown a glass-covered case containing a number of beautiful butterflies, mounted by child's play, not material for scientific study...The situation would be very much the same if we should place a teacher who, according to our conception of the term, is scientifically prepared, in one of the public schools where the children are repressed in the spontaneous expression of their personality till they are almost like dead beings. In such a school the children, like butterflies mounted on pins, are fastened each to his place, the desk, spreading the useless wings of barren and meaningless knowledge which they have acquired." (Sarah Baker)
