Profiles of Educators: Roger Cousinet (1881-1973).

Abstract

Education can no longer be an action exerted by a master on his pupils, for such action has proved futile; it is, in fact, an activity whereby the child works towards his own development, in a favourable environment and with the help of an educator who is now there in a merely consultative capacity. It follows that active methods are not teaching but learning tools, that they must be placed in the hands of the pupils alone and that any teacher introducing them into his class will be prepared not to use them, and in so doing will refrain from teaching.