"Being is the great explainer." Henry David Thoreau says this with the utmost honesty and profound wisdom. Thoreau was an intelligent man who believed that every person should experience things for themselves and not rely on others in society. You have no one to bring you down if you work independently. His ideal classroom would be one where students can learn on their own and at heir own will. This shows in the way he feels towards solitude, rules and learning as a whole. "How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live?"
             "The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready." In the classroom, Thoreau would want an environment where the student could be on their own for the majority of the time. " I have never found the companion that was so companiable as solitude..." In being alone, distractions are eliminated and people are left to think their own free thoughts. They become their own person.
             Rules that are made up to conform thoughts and ideas, or anything at all really are not rules that Thoreau would be proud of. "Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it." This quotation proves that some rules are just made up for the purpose of being there. Education should not be altered by the thoughts and conformities of others. If someone were to stay at home and learn, and never see the light of day, could they not learn just as well? In the absence of laws and rules, our mind can fully grow.
             "What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook." Education does not allow student to be what they want to. Instead of being free and going where they want to, teachers have them go by set guidelines. With course after course of tiring education, students can find it difficult to stay on top of things. By eliminating a few pressures, we can succeed in doing our work just as well. "Th
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