Volume 6 · The Unfinished Syllabus · Essay 121
Harmon Teaching Method
The Harmon Teaching method asks for a little discipline and returns a lot of peace. A fair trade, by any ledger.
Try it for a fortnight before judging it. Most methods die in the court of first impressions, which is the least competent court there is.
It is worth keeping in your pocket not because it is always right, but because it is always available. A tool you carry beats a perfect tool you left at home.
The old NCERT textbook, boring cover and all, has outlived a hundred motivational posters. Clarity is the only pedagogy that never goes out of fashion.
Learning is the one wealth that survives every partition of fortune. The name is new; the wisdom stood at bus stops long before either of us.