Punishment Renders Autonomy Of Conscience Impossible.

Children Require Long, Uniterrupted Periods Of Play And Exploration

The Child Who Defines A Lie As Being A "naughty Word" Knows Perfectly Well That Lying Consists In Not Speaking The Truth. He Is Not, Therefore, Mistaking One Thing For Another, He Is Simply Identifying Them One With Another By What Seems To Us A Quaint Extension Of The Word "lie".

The Self Thus Becomes Aware Of Itself, At Least In Its Practical Action, And Discovers Itself As A Cause Among Other Causes And As An Object Subject To The Same Laws As Other Objects.

In Other Words, Knowledge Of The External World Begins With An Immediate Utilisation Of Things, Whereas Knowledge Of Self Is Stopped By This Purely Practical And Utilitarian Contact.

Teaching Means Creating Situations Where Structures Can Be Discovered.