“Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.”

Source: The Discovery of the Child (1948), Ch. 1

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Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician 1870–1952

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