.. Every Step Of The Upward Way

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.

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.

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.

This Splendid Subject [mathematics], Queen Of All Exact Sciences, And The Ideal And Norm Of All Careful Thinking.

Of All Work-schools, A Good Farm Is Probably The Best For Motor Development.