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“When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler.”

Trying Mind Children School Purpose Force Accepting Discipline Adults Purposefulness

Book:The Oxford India Tagore: Selected Writings on Education and Nationalism

Source: The Oxford India Tagore: Selected Writings on Education and Nationalism

“If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization that functions properly, discipline should be a marginal issue.”

Ifs Should Important Reality School Certain Given Issues Discipline Creating Organization Function Important Things Principal Given Up School Principal

Author:Itay Talgam

“I think when we talk about corporal punishment, and we have to think about our own children, and we are rather reluctant, it seems to me, to have other people administering punishment to our own children, because we are reluctant, it puts a special obligation on us to maintain order and to send children out from our homes who accept the idea of discipline. So I would not be for corporal punishment in the school, but I would be for very strong discipline at home so we don't place an unfair burden on our teachers.”

People Thinking Children Ideas Home Seems Would Be School Order Strong Accepting Teacher Special Discipline Burden Punishment Obligation Very Strong Unfair Reluctant Corporal Punishment

Author:John F. Kennedy

“The premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the obverse of the lack of attention given to life situations in which the meaning of facts, ideas, principles, and problems is vitally brought home.”

Ideas Facts Problem Home School Given Attention Situation Principles Discipline Mark Rewards Promotion Premium

Book:The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education

Source: The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education

“I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.”

School Education Class Discipline Technique Hated Avoided Absent Absent Minded

Author:Sigrid Undset

“Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.”

People Home School Hours Known Four Discipline Six Twenties Active Intercourse

Author:Georg Brandes

“Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.”

Believe School Order Needed Discipline Cameras Officials Public School

Author:Paul Weyrich

“The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.”

Home School Young Life Is Discipline Training Method Family Life Domesticity Best School

Book:Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance

Source: Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance

“I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.”

Character Age School Force Air Military Discipline Six Strength Of Character Air Force Military School

Author:Larry Hagman