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

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

The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.

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

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.

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

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