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The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

Every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.

Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking ...

Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.