When this desire masters him during school hours, it goes by the name of "naughtiness," and is regarded as a proof of the inborn sinfulness of his "fallen" nature.

To repress the desire, to keep the child in a state either of absolute inaction or of mechanically regulated activity, is the function of school discipline.

Whatever in the child's life is free, natural, spontaneous, wells up from an evil source.

If educational progress is to be made, that source must be carefully sealed.

As an educator, the teacher must do his best to reduce the child to the level of a wire-pulled puppet.