Knowing Reality Means Constructing Systems Of Transformations

The Need To Speak The Truth And Even To Seek It For Oneself Is Only Conceivable In So Far As The Individual Thinks And Acts As One Of A Society, And Not Of Any Society (for It Is Just The Constraining Relations Between Superior And Inferior That Often Drive The Latter To Prevarication) But Of A Society Founded On Reciprocity And Mutual Respect, And Therefore On Cooperation.

In Certain Circumstances Where He Experiments In New Types Of Conduct By Cooperating With His Equals, The Child Is Already An Adult. There Is An Adult In Every Child And A Child In Every Adult. ... There Exist In The Child Certain Attitudes And Beliefs Which Intellectual Development Will More And More Tend To Eliminate: There Are Others Which Will Acquire More And More Importance. The Later Are Not Derived From The Former But Are Partly Antagonistic To Them.

During The Earliest Stages Of Thought, Accommodation Remains On The Surface Of Physical As Well As Social Experience.

The Majority Of Parents Are Poor Psychologists And Give Their Children The Most Questionable Moral Trainings. It Is Perhaps In This Domain That One Realized Most How Keenly How Immoral It Can Be To Believe Too Much In Morality, And How Much More Precious Is A Little Humanity Than All The Rules In The World.

Experience Precedes Understanding.