The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

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

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

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

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.

.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.