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“The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.”

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Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.

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Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

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.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.

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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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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

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Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

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Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a…

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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

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Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.

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This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...

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Being an only child is a disease in itself.

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Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

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I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your difficulties. It is in such circumstances that we acquire virtue; where there is no suffering, there is little merit. My wish is that God may grant us great indifference with regard to duties. O Monsieur, how…

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