There can be no doubt that children should be taught those useful things which are really necessary, but not all things, for occupations are divided into liberal and illiberal; and to young children should be imparted only such kinds of knowledge as will be useful to them without vulgarizing them. And any occupation, art, or […]
The average ego, the average individual, remains fixed in the group, although in the course of development he is compelled to give up the original security of the unconscious, to evolve a conscious system, and to take upon himself all the complications and sufferings which such development entails. For the primary security of the unconscious […]
The form of representation peculiar to the unconscious is not that of the conscious mind. It neither attempts nor is able to seize hold of and define its object in a series of discursive explanations, and reduce them to clarity by logical analysis. The way of the unconscious is different. Symbols gather round the thing […]
The question sounds definite. It seems unequivocal. But even a slight reflection shows it to have more than one meaning. No sooner do we ask the question than we begin to vacillate. Indeed, the ambiguity of the question foils every attempt to push toward the answer without some further preparation. We must, then, clarify the […]
The Master said, “With sincere faith he unites the love of learning; holding firm to death, he is perfecting the excellence of his course. “Such an one will not enter a tottering state, nor dwell in a disorganized one. When right principles of government prevail in the kingdom, he will show himself; when they are […]
Now the pupil had become a teacher, and as such he had mastered the major task of his first period in office: the struggle to win authority and forge an identity of person and office. In the course of this he made two discoveries. The first was the pleasure it gives to transplant the achievements […]
What is it that shapes a person if it is not his life history? And in the same way a splendid person is shaped by nothing other than world history. Many people live better in the past and the future than in the present. Even the present cannot at all be understood without the past […]
Illnesses, particularly long-lasting ones, are years of apprenticeship in the art of life and the shaping of the mind. One must seek to use them through daily observations. For is not the life of the educated person a constant challenge to learn? The educated person lives entirely for the future. His life is struggle; his […]
76. (THEORY OF EDUCATION). Faith—absolute acceptance of an activity awakening principle (object), is to be expected from the child (subject). PHILOSOPHY. The beginning of the ego is merely ideal.—If it had to begin, then it had to begin in this manner. The beginning is already a later concept. The beginning originates later than the ego, […]
Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand. – Chinese Proverb
The Uncarved 