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Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them. The remedy is not that adults should gain some new intellectual knowledge or achieve...
The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Art expresses, it does not state; it is concerned with existences in their perceived qualities, not with conceptions symbolized in terms.
If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to possess them.
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.
While they denounce as subversive anarchy signs of independent thought, of thinking for themselves on the part of others lest such thought disturb the conditions by which they profit, they think quite...
Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.
We have cleared the forests, reclaimed the land, and are building cities, railroads, and great institutions.
The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world
Freedom without organization of work would be useless. The child left free without means of work would go to waste, just as a new-born baby, if left free without nourishment, would die of starvation.T...
The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.
There is no escape — man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
This intelligence-testing business reminds me of the way they used to weigh hogs in Texas. They would get a long plank, put it over a cross-bar, and somehow tie the hog on one end of the plank. They'd...
So we are always esthetically disappointed when the sensuous qualities and the intellectual properties of an object do not coalesce.
In all things social as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.
The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do.
What happens in the movement of art is emergence of new materials of experience demanding expression, and therefore involving in their expression new forms and techniques.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.
In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole peo...
* "In the vivid description of the Gospel, it would seem that we must help the Christ hidden in every poor man, in every prisioner, in every sufferer. But if we paraphrased the marvelous scene and app...
Even the eye that is artificially trained to see color as color, apart from things that colors qualify, cannot shut out the resonances and transfers of value.
There is no power on earth, that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple and useful life.
As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man. It is more important that we be prepared for voting than that we vote, more important that we be prepared to hold office than that we hold office, more imp...