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The Human Mind Shows An Urge To Capture Into Fixed Forms Through Unreal Assumptions, That Is, Fictions, That Which Is Chaotic, Always In Flux, And Incomprehensible. Serving This Urge, The Child Quite Generally Uses A Scheme In Order To Act And To Find His Way. We Proceed Much The Same When We Divide The Earth By Meridians And Parallels, For Only Thus Do We Obtain Fixed Points Which We Can Bring Into A Relationship With One Another.

Play Is A Child's Work And This Is Not A Trivial Pursuit.

An Educator's Most Important Task, One Might Say His Holy Duty, Is To See To It That No Child Is Discouraged At School, And That A Child Who Enters School Already Discouraged Regains His Self-confidence Through His School And His Teacher. This Goes Hand In Hand With The Vocation Of The Educator, For Education Is Possible Only With Children Who Look Hopefully And Joyfully Upon The Future.

Tears And Complaints - The Means Which I Have Called Water Power - Can Be An Extremely Useful Weapon For Disturbing Cooperation And Reducing Other To A Condition Of Slavery.

Each Generation Has Its Few Great Mathematicians, And Mathematics Would Not Even Notice The Absence Of The Others. They Are Useful As Teachers, And Their Research Harms No One, But It Is Of No Importance At All. A Mathematician Is Great Or He Is Nothing.