The punishment, so frequent in schools, which consists in subjecting the culprit to public reprimand and is almost tantamount to the torture of the...

The schoolchild, being continually discouraged and scolded, ends by acquiring that mixture of distrust of his own powers and of fear which is called...

There is no punishment or reward in our schools to interfere with the joy in the work itself. The only reward is in the completion of the work – it is...

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...

...an adult should show himself to a child as a loving and enlightened guide assisting him.

She understands and believes that the children must be free to choose their own occupations just as they must never be interrupted in their...

No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a “reward” or by fear of...