"We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the dee…"

"The peril of servilism and dependence lies not only in that "useless consuming of life," which leads to helplessness,…"

"It seems as though a new epoch were in preparation, a truly human epoch, and as though the end had almost come of tho…"

"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."

"The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and …"

"We have in ourselves tendencies that are not good and which flourish like weeds in a field. (Original sin). These ten…"

"The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My k…"

"Freedom without organization of work would be useless. The child left free without means of work would go to waste, j…"

"To prepare teachers in the method of the experimental sciences is not an easy matter. When we shall have instructed t…"

"Let us picture to ourselves a clever and proficient workman, capable, not only of producing much and perfect work, bu…"