All mental and moral development is by self-activity. Educa… - Francis Wayland Parker

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All mental and moral development is by self-activity. Education is the economizing of self-effort in the direction of all-sided development.

Francis Wayland Parker

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About Francis Wayland Parker

Francis Wayland Parker (October 9, 1837 – March 2, 1902) was a pioneer of the progressive school movement in the United States. He believed that education should include the complete development of an individual — mental, physical, and moral.

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Alternative Names: Francis W. Parker • F. W. Parker

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The science of arithmetic may be called the science of exact limitation of matter and things in space, force, and time.

Number was born in superstition and reared in mystery,... numbers were once made the foundation of religion and philosophy, and the tricks of figures have had a marvellous effect on a credulous people.

Form and size constitute the foundation of all search for truth.

All mental and moral development is by self-activity. Education is the economizing of self-effort in the direction of all-sided development. - Francis Wayland Parker

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