Education, For Most People, Means Trying To

Knowing Reality Means Constructing Systems Of Transformations That Correspond, More Or Less Adequately, To Reality.

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.

If Logic Itself Is Created Rather Than Being Inborn, It Follows That The First Task Of Education Is To Form Reasoning.

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.

How Much More Precious Is A Little Humanity Than All The Rules In The World.