from My Name is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok

"That is where your pictures will hang in the spring," Anna Schaeffer said to me, pointing to the walls.
    I stared at her and felt a shock move through me.
   "I would have done it this year," she said. "But this old man would not let me."
   "He is still a boy this year," Jacob Kahn said. "A boy should not rush to make his soul naked."

on the theory of learning, from Intown Community School (Atlanta)

... it is important to note that we are not simply preparing a child for life, the child is a part of life now. Learning becomes a natural function of life because it fulfills aspects of the image of God in the child: dominion, creativity, intellect, emotion, volition, etc.