A system of education that is based on liberty ought to aim at assisting a child in obtaining it, and should have as its specific aim the freeing of...
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No one can be free if he is not independent, therefore, in order to attain this independence, the active manifestations of personal liberty must be...
... a teacher is “the catalyst” between a child...and the environment prepared for his education.
A child's liberty should have at its limit the interests of the group to which he belongs.... We should therefore prevent a child from doing anything...
Then when she begins to see that it is her duty to distinguish between acts which should be prevented and those which should be observed....
It would seem to me that children are very well disciplined indeed when they can all move around in a room in a useful, intelligent, and free fashion...
..the first educational influence upon a child should have as its object the guidance of the child along the way of independence.
Like others I had believed that it was necessary to encourage a child by means of some exterior reward that would flatter his baser sentiments... in...