Punishment Renders Autonomy Of Conscience Impossible.

It Is As His Own Mind Comes Into Contact With Others That Truth Will Begin To Acquire Value In The Child's Eyes And Will Consequently Become A Moral Demand That Can Be Made Upon Him. As Long As The Child Remains Egocentric, Truth As Such Will Fail To Interest Him And He Will See No Harm In Transposing Facts In Accordance With His Desires.

When You Teach A Child Something You Take Away Forever His Chance Of Discovering It For Himself.

Punishment Renders Autonomy Of Conscience Impossible.

At One Time, Many Philosophers Held That Faultless "laws Of Thought" Were Somehow Inherent, A Priori, In The Very Nature Of Mind. This Belief Was Twice Shaken In The Past Century; First When Russell And His Successors Showed How The Logic Men Employ Can Be Defective, And Later When Freud And Piaget Started To Reveal The Tortuous Ways In Which Our Minds Actually Develop.

What Is Desired Is That The Teacher Ceased Being A Lecturer, Satisfied With Transmitting Ready-made Solutions. His Role Should Rather Be That Of A Mentor Stimulating Initiative And Research.