“We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development of the human soul; the emergence of the New Man who will no longer be the victim of events but, thanks to his clarity of vision, will become able to direct and to mold the future of mankind.”

Part I : The Child's Part in World Reconstruction, p. 9
The Absorbent Mind (1949)

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Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician 1870–1952

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