The Belief That We Some Day Shall

Corporal Punishment Is As Humiliating For Him Who Gives It As For Him Who Receives It; It Is Ineffective Besides. Neither Shame Nor Physical Pain Have Any Other Effect Than A Hardening One.

The Higher The Development Of Women, The More They Suffer From The 'patriotic' Mandate To Bear Many Children To Replace The Nation's Losses. For They Know That, From The Point Of View Of Their Personal Development As Well As That Of The Race, Fewer But Better Children Are To Be Preferred.

For Success In Training Children The First Condition Is To Become As A Child Oneself, But This Means No Assumed Childishness, No Condescending Baby-talk That The Child Immediately Sees Through And Deeply Abhors. What It Does Mean Is To Be As Entirely And Simply Taken Up With The Child As The Child Himself Is Absorbed By His Life.

The Educator Must Above All Understand How To Wait; To Reckon All Effects In The Light Of The Future, Not Of The Present.

When One Paints An Ideal, One Does Not Need To Limit One's Imagination.