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

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

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

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

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.

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 over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.