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“Work is the greatest means of education. To train children to work, to work systematically, to love work, and to put their brains into work, may be called the end and aim of schools. In education, no work should be done for the sake of the thing done, but for the sake of the growing mind.”

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Francis Wayland Parker
Francis Wayland Parker

Francis Wayland Parker was an American educator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, whose educational philosophy and methods had a profound impact on subsequent educational reforms. more

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