Once and Future King
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Experience is Everything
In the book, The Once and Future King, T.H. White shows the importance that education
relies heavily upon ones own personal experiences. When Merlyn is called on to tutor Wart, an
adopted child, he uses this exact learning method on Wart. Merlyn, who is a magician, uses transformation as a his learning tool. Merlyn turns Wart into different animals to show Wart
lessons of life. Through each transformation Wart experiences different forms of power, each
being a part of how he should rule as king. When Wart experiences each of these different stages
of lesson he finds out from Mr. P that mind power is nothing, from the wild goose he learns freedom, and the badger teaches him to accept what you have.
When Wart is transformed into a fish Merlyn takes him to go talk to the master of the
moat, Mr. P. This is the first transformation that Wart will learn his first lesson in. When Wart
approaches Mr. P he......
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