pp.324
"The fundamental prerequisate of pedagogics inevitably demands an element
of individualization, that is, conscious and rigorous determination of the
individualized goals of education for each particular student".
pp 339
"Just as you cannot learn how to swim by standing at the seashore, that to
learn how to swim you have to, out of necessity, plunge right into the
water even though you still don't know how to swim, so the only way to
learn something, say, how to acquire knowledge, is by doing so, in other
words, by acquireing knowledge."
"Where he (teacher) is simply setting forth ready-prepared bits and pieces
of knowledge, there he has ceased being a teacher".
pp 243
"Nowwhere did the sickness of the Tsarist pedagogics exibit itself with
such clarity as in those instances when, in place of open warfare between
teacher and student, there sprang up friendly relationships. The
deification of the "favorite teacher" which assumed the form of adoration,
represents, in fact a genuine psychological problem that recalls that which
in psychoanalst is referred to as transference".
pp345
"Our only concern is that there exists within the very nature of the
educational process, within its psychological essence, the demand that
there be as intimate a contact, and as close an interaction, with life
itself as might be wished for".
pp347
"The whole difference is that the child has to travel this road on his own
two feet and not at all in parallel with the paths of history. Once we bear
in mind the incredible vastness of this path, (life) however, it becomes
entirely understandable that the child will have to enter into a brutal
struggle with the world, and that in this struggle the teacher has to have
the final word. That is when we get the idea that teaching is like
warfare".
pp348
"Pedogogics is never and was never politically indifferent, since,
willingly or unwillingly, through its own work on the psyche, it has always
adopted a particular social pattern, political line, in accordance with the
dominant social class that has guided its interests".
pp349
"Education is a process of mutual and continuous adaptation of both camps,
where sometimes it is guide or leader which represents the most active and
the most original effective side, and sometimes those who are being led."