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“Slowly the human beings have arise n-guided by a glimmering light — and have climbed spiritually from the earth and the clod, from the shrub and tree up the broad walls of the arched sky, to stars, and moon, and sun, and then beyond the sun, for the divinity seeldng and striving imagination stretches away to the invisible, all powerful, all-controlling, all-loving. One who permeates the universe, lives in it, and breathes His life through it, the eternal life to be taken into the human soul. The myth is the obscure image, in the child's soul, of God Himself.”

Francis Wayland Parker

Source: Talks on Pedagogics, (1894), p. 10

“Form and size constitute the foundation of all search for truth.”

Francis Wayland Parker

Source: Talks on Pedagogics, (1894), p. 72. Reported in Moritz (1914, 292)

“Number was born in superstition and reared in mystery,… numbers were once made the foundation of religion and philosophy, and the tricks of figures have had a marvellous effect on a credulous people.”

Francis Wayland Parker

Source: Talks on Pedagogics, (1894), p. 64. Reported in Moritz (1914, 269)

“The science of arithmetic may be called the science of exact limitation of matter and things in space, force, and time.”

Francis Wayland Parker

Source: Talks on Pedagogics, (1894), p. 64. Reported in Robert Edouard Moritz. Memorabilia mathematica; or, The philomath's quotation-book https://archive.org/stream/memorabiliamathe00moriiala#page/81/mode/2up, (1914), p. 263

“All mental and moral development is by self-activity. Education is the economizing of self-effort in the direction of all-sided development.”

Francis Wayland Parker

Source: Talks on Pedagogics, (1894), p. 25; as quoted in Sanderson Beck. Francis W. Parker's Concentration Pedagogy: Education to Free the Human Spirit http://www.san.beck.org/Parker.html, 1996