How Much More Precious Is A Little

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

Punishment Renders Autonomy Of Conscience Impossible.

The More The Schemata Are Differentiated, The Smaller The Gap Between The New And The Familiar Becomes, So That Novelty, Instead Of Constituting An Annoyance Avoided By The Subject, Becomes A Problem And Invites Searching.

If Mutual Respect Does Derive From Unilateral Respect, It Does So By Opposition.

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.