One Of The Goals Of Education Should

What Shall We Think Of A Well-adjusted Slave?

We Fear Our Highest Possibilities. We Are Generally Afraid To Become That Which We Can Glimpse In Our Most Perfect Moments, Under Conditions Of Great Courage. We Enjoy And Even Thrill To Godlike Possibilities We See In Ourselves In Such Peak Moments. And Yet We Simultaneously Shiver With Weakness, Awe, And Fear Before These Very Same Possibilities.

The Science Of Psychology Has Been Far More Successful On The Negative Than On The Positive Side... It Has Revealed To Us Much About Man's Shortcomings, His Illnesses, His Sins, But Little About His Potentialities, His Virtues, His Achievable Aspirations Or His Psychological Health... We Must Find Out What Psychology Might Be If It Could Free Itself From The Stultifying Effects Of Limited, Pessimistic And Stingy Preoccupations With Human Nature.

We Need Not Take Refuge In Supernatural Gods To Explain Our Saints And Sages And Heroes And Statesmen, As If To Explain Our Disbelief That Mere Unaided Human Beings Could Be That Good Or Wise.

He That Is Good With A Hammer Tends To Think Everything Is A Nail.