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“The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.”

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The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually…

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The present practice is to impress one's own discoveries, opinions and principles on the child by constantly directing his actions. The last thing to…

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All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to…

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Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.

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War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

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When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined…

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The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the man's dominion…

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Socialism and the woman movement are two mighty streams which drag along with them great parts of the firm formations which they touch.

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Formerly, a nation that broke the peace, did not trouble to try and prove to the world that it was done solely from higher…

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When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of society and…

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One day we were brought into the world, knowing love only as being what we had for our toys, family, and friends. Then, you…

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The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat…

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To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.

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The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity.

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