Formal education overemphasizes recognition memory, so that when a child comes to us with a question mark we stuff a full stop down him, smothering the exclamation mark that may be in him yet. "His intention from now on is to dedicate himself to" informal learning, "chiefly at the preschool level, and it is in this context that Chinese educational toys have a role.
「也許我會辭去一部分教職。正式教學太強調認知記憶，小孩帶著問號來，我們塞給他一個句點，這會扼殺產生驚嘆號的可能性。」