If A Baby Really Has No Awareness

The More We Try To Improve Our Schools, The Heavier The Teaching Task Becomes; And The Better Our Teaching Methods The More Difficult They Are To Apply.

For The Fundamental Fact Of Human Psychology Is That Society, Instead Of Remaining Almost Entirely Inside The Individual Organism As In The Case Of Animals Prompted By Their Instincts, Becomes Crystallized Almost Entirely Outside The Individuals. In Other Words, Social Rules, As Durkheim Has So Powerfully Shown, Whether They Be Linguistic, Moral, Religious, Or Legal, Etc., Cannot Be Constituted, Transmitted Or Preserved By Means Of An Internal Biological Heredity, But Only Through The External Pressure Exercised By Individuals Upon Each Other.

Before Games Are Played In Common, No Rules In The Proper Sense Can Come Into Existence. Regularities And Ritualized Schemas Are Already There, But These Rites, Being The Work Of The Individual, Cannot Call Forth That Submission To Something Superior To The Self Which Characterizes The Appearance Of Any Rule.

We Learn More When We Are Compelled To Invent.

It Is With Children That We Have The Best Chance Of Studying The Development Of Logical Knowledge, Mathematical Knowledge, Physical Knowledge, And So Forth.