In vigorous children it (vitality) quickly rises to a maximum before they reach school age, and then tends to be diminished by education.
出典: On Education, especially in early childhood, 1926, chap. 2: The Aims of Education
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we desire good things for ourselves without first demanding a proof that some great purpose will be furthered by our obtaining them. Every ordinarily affectionate parent feels the same sort of thing about his or her children.
出典: On Education, especially in early childhood, 1926, chap. 1: Postulates of Modern Educational Theory
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The fundamental idea is simple: that the right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. What is astonishing is the great success in finding technical methods of embodying this idea in education. For this, Madame Montessori deserves the highest praise.
出典: On Education, especially in early childhood, 1926, chap. 1: Postulates of Modern Educational Theory
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自分の3歳の息子(注:1921年生まれの長男の John Russell)をモンテッソーリ式学校に入れ,午前中をそこで過ごさせることによって,私は,息子がたちまち,以前よりも躾の良い人間になり,喜んで黙って校則に従っていることがわかった。しかし,息子には,外部から強制されたという感情はまったくなかった。校則は,ゲームのルールのようなものであり,楽しみを得る手段として守られた(ルールに従った)のである。
On sending my little boy of three to spend his mornings in a Montessori school, I found that he quickly became a more disciplined human being, and that he cheerfully acquiesced in the rules of the school. But he had no feeling whatever of external compulsion: the rules were like the rules of a game, and were obeyed as a means of enjoyment.
出典: On Education, especially in early childhood, 1926, chap. 1: Postulates of Modern Educational Theory
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This (seed) is useful because it produces grain, which is useful because it produces bread, which is useful because it preserves life. But life must be capable of some intrinsic value: if life were merely useful as a means to other life, it would not be useful at all.
出典: On Education, especially in early childhood, 1926, chap. 1: Postulates of Modern Educational Theory
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There can be no agreement between those who regard education as a means of instilling certain definite beliefs, and those who think that it should produce the power of independent judgement.
出典: On Education, especially in early childhood, 1926,preface.
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And if war is not abolished, civilization cannot survive. This is a painful dilemma for those whose patriotic feelings are stronger than their reasoning powers, but if it is not apprehended intellectually it will be disastrously proved by the march of events.
出典: Right and Might (written in early of 1930s and pub. in 1975 in Mortals and Others, v.1, 1975.]
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But you cannot say, with any semblance of logic, that you are against war but in favour of the present system, according to which, in a dispute, every government is the ultimate judge in its own case. If war is ever abolished, it will have to be by the establishment of an international government possessed of irresistible armed forces.
出典: Right and Might (written in early of 1930s and pub. in 1975 in Mortals and Others, v.1, 1975.]
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There is in our time a tendency to exalt the elements of unreason which we have inherited from our barbarous past; but we cannot combine these elements with scientific technique. Those who praise them should give up industrialism, let ninetenths of our population die of hunger, and revert to bows and arrows. If they will not face this alternative, they must become civilised in their passions, not only in their command over natural forces
出典:Bertrand Russell: Is progress assured?, In: Mortals and Others, v.1 (1975)
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Most people find it pleasanter to follow their passions rather than their intelligence, but when the penalty is starvation, they will, in the long run, submit to being reasonable. The conditions of universal prosperity are quite simple and well known, but they involve changes in our habits of feeling, and will, therefore, only be adopted when the lessons of the Depression have sunk deep into men’s minds.
出典:Bertrand Russell: The consolations of history, Feb. 22 1933. In: Mortals and Others, v.1 (1975)
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