All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurab...le to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no c...ondescending 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame no...r physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmatio...n of the right of the self that history has yet seen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »