أطعِم الإنسانَ الناميَ بالتجربة التي يشتاق إليها طبعاً عاماً بعد عام، فيُنشئ في رشده نسيجاً عقلياً أمتن، ولو بدا لمن يرون الكتب والمعلومات المنطوقة وحدها طريقاً للتعلّم أنه «يُضيّع» كثيراً من وقت نموّه.

“Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.”William James — Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals (1983)