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Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education. The purpose of education is to teach students how to think, not what they must do. The highest form of education is teaching children how to think. Then, let them live their own lives according to their own intelligence.
If they are young, let them have fun playing games, but don't make them play the game you want them to play. And if they are older, let them learn what they want to learn without telling them that you want them to do exactly what you want them to do. When they find that their wisdom tends to differ from yours, you can still have a private conversation with them, sharing your wisdom with them in an effort to educate the wisdom out of their heads.
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