Psychology
"The Research workers investigating social problems are discovering that university graduates and school licentiates are not prepared for life ,and, not only this but their capacity for engaging usefully in social work has been diminished"
The Pr-school age
" An interest in protecting the psychic life of babies, as a social problem , does not exist.Besides, society proclaims that young children belong to the home and not to the state"
"Various workers have made clear what remedies are needed in all the phases of life. So all is ready:we have only to build.The various contributions of science are like stones from the quarry already squared for placing in the building. all we have to do is to find people ready to put them together and so erect the new structure which civilization so badly needs"
society and the task of education
"If society recognizes as necessary to the child's development things that the family cannot provide, then it is society's duty to provide those things. the state must never abandon the child."
"The society should exert a beneficent control over human individuals ,and if it is also true that education is regarded as a help to life, then this control will never be restrictive and oppressive , but it must take the form of physical and psychic help. This means that society's first step must be to allocate a higher proportion of its wealth to education".
children as the makers of man
"The child's growth something more is needed than mere physical hygiene.Just as the latter wards off injuries to his body, so we need mental hygiene to protect his mind and soul from harm."
"The child is not an inert being who owes everything he can do to us,as if he were an empty vessel that we have to fill.No , it is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child who once he was."
"The child who absorbs material from the world about him ; he who moulds it into the man of
The Pr-school age
" An interest in protecting the psychic life of babies, as a social problem , does not exist.Besides, society proclaims that young children belong to the home and not to the state"
"Various workers have made clear what remedies are needed in all the phases of life. So all is ready:we have only to build.The various contributions of science are like stones from the quarry already squared for placing in the building. all we have to do is to find people ready to put them together and so erect the new structure which civilization so badly needs"
society and the task of education
"If society recognizes as necessary to the child's development things that the family cannot provide, then it is society's duty to provide those things. the state must never abandon the child."
"The society should exert a beneficent control over human individuals ,and if it is also true that education is regarded as a help to life, then this control will never be restrictive and oppressive , but it must take the form of physical and psychic help. This means that society's first step must be to allocate a higher proportion of its wealth to education".
children as the makers of man
"The child's growth something more is needed than mere physical hygiene.Just as the latter wards off injuries to his body, so we need mental hygiene to protect his mind and soul from harm."
"The child is not an inert being who owes everything he can do to us,as if he were an empty vessel that we have to fill.No , it is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child who once he was."
"The child who absorbs material from the world about him ; he who moulds it into the man of