There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden... The pupil is in the age of spon….

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

Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail to do so wil….

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

Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher..

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

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past..

Being an only child is a disease in itself..

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born..

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

The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emo….

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life..

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and machines in the world, written al….

All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses to which ….

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

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 ….

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and ou….

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

Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was h….

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker..

Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the in….