Psychopedagogy of Children and Adolescents

The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

The welfare of a child is not to be measured by money only, nor by physical comfort only.

A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university … This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.