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There can be no substitute for work neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.

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To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

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The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

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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 ...more

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We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through e...more

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Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

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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...more

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Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fit...more

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We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being...more

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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...more

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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

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At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The ...more