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.

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.

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

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

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.

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

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