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 child who has to sit still listening to a teacher is in the worst possible state of mind and body for learning. Likewise, the child whose life at...

The child who has to sit still listening to a teacher is in the worst possible state of mind and body for learning. Likewise, the child whose life at...

When work has become a habit, the intellectual level rises rapidly, and organised order causes good conduct to become a habit. Children then work with...

When work has become a habit, the intellectual level rises rapidly, and organised order causes good conduct to become a habit. Children then work with...

So what we call the first level of obedience is that in which the child can obey, but not always. It is a period in which obedience and disobedience...

We had seen that nature prepares indirectly the embryo; she issues no orders until the organs have been prepared for obedience. Character can be built...

Obedience is no mechanical thing, but a natural force of social cohesion, intimately related to the will, even its sublimation.