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The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.

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The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.

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If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.

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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

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We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.

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Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all - zero!

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The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man's organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.

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All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the correct expression of what we consider decorous. Without impulses, we could take no part in social life; on the other hand, without inhibitions, we could not correct, direct, and utilize our impulses.

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The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Educator

Born: August 31st, 1870

Died: May 6th, 1952

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