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

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

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 spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite.

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 our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

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

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 all the books, spoken all the words, and, in fact done everything that man has accomplished with matter. Character might be a sense defined as a plexus of motor habits.

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