The Belief That We Some Day Shall

Love Requires Peace, Love Will Dream; It Cannot Live Upon The Remnants Of Our Time And Our Personality.

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 Socially Pernicious, Racially Wasteful, And Soul-withering Consequences Of The Working Of Mothers Outside The Home Must Cease. And This Can Only Come To Pass, Either Through The Programme Of Institutional Upbringing, Or Through The Intimate Renaissance Of The Home.

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.

Anyone Who Would Attempt The Task Of Felling A Virgin Forest With A Penknife Would Probably Feel The Same Paralysis Of Despair That The Reformer Feels When Confronted With Existing School Systems.