When the independent life of the child is not recognised with its own characteristics and its own ends, when the adult man interprets these...
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It is verily upon the perfect and tranquil spiritual life of the child that depends the health or sickness of the soul, the strength or weakness of...
The child who has never learned to act alone, to direct his own actions, to govern his own will, grows into an adult who is easily led and must...
The schoolchild, being continually discouraged and scolded, ends by acquiring that mixture of distrust of his own powers and of fear which is called...
The obedience which is expected of the child both in the home and in the school – and obedience admitting neither of reason nor of justice – prepares...
The punishment, so frequent in schools, which consists in subjecting the culprit to public reprimand and is almost tantamount to the torture of the...
Teachers should cultivate a staunch belief in their mission. Only then will it be possible to create a new world through education. However, if this...
’But,’ I can hear you say, ‘shall we leave our children to do as they like? How can they know what is best for them when they have had no experience...
In these times, more than ever before, our hope is that education will offer an aid to better the condition of the world.