Methods of Self-Activity

Teaching is practised by people with varying points of view and varying

degrees of understanding.
Activity teaching places less emphasis upon memorizing and more on
thinking, less on merely accumulating facts and more on understanding facts
collected, less learning through coercion and more through genuine interest.
Self-activity, in the sense of ability to educate oneself, should be an objective
of all teaching.
Extreme coercion is an antagonistic to the development of interest as well as
independent ability.
Independent ability is only realized when it is made a special objective when
pupils are gradually thrown upon their own responsibility and guided in their
efforts to utilize fruitful technique.
Self-activity is not a particular method and it should be a definite objective of
all teaching methods.