To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.
How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through th...
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.
When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incident...
If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.
Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations. This i...
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior...
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