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• The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is…
• All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart…
• This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...
• Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and…
• .. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.
• Being an only child is a disease in itself.
• Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still…
• Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.
• There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden...…
• The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given…
• Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
• Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

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