If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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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.
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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind. An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
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When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
