A Sword in the Stone Education has been the key to success for many centuries and its principles haven't changed much. Teachers have different ways of teaching just as students have different ways of learning. Although teacher and student interaction is a very important part in education, I believe that a student should be given some room to learn by experimenting on his/her own. That is what I think a education should be, not only from book to student, but from student to whatever is out there in the open world. In The Sword in the Stone, Arthur's education is very interesting; in a way, very similar to my point of view on what a real education should