**** ETNI on the web http://www.etni.org.il http://www.etni.org **** Both in theory and in practice Korczak was always careful to refrain from any arbitrary or impulsive use of his absolute power as an adult. The good pedagogue, he believed, is always seeking to improve and instruct himself in his work and is thereby able to preserve and renew his links with the child. "Before he asks a child to wash the floor, the teacher must do it several times himself and must observe how the other children do it and what they say about it. It is more important to teach them how to wring out a mop or how a straw mattress is made than to order that their beds be made spotlessly as though it were a military barracks." ##### To send a message to the ETNI list email: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ##### ##### Send queries and questions to: ask@xxxxxxxx #####