Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Education

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SOCIALIZATION

It is not good for man to be alone. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile

[A child] must form friendships with other children, and not be always by himself. ~ Immanuel Kant, Thoughts on Education

The deepest spring of action in us is the sight of action in another. ~ William James, Talks to Teachers

In almost every case, people model themselves after their peers, not their parents. ~ Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate (p. 390)

School is a place of compulsory culture. ~ Immanuel Kant, Thoughts on Education

For my part I am firmly convinced that anyone who only knows the people among whom he lives does not know mankind. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile

Nowhere is it possible to live a free and independent life, doing ill to do one, fearing ill from no one. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile

Knots which are too tightly drawn break. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile

For while a wise man, as well as a just man and the rest, need the necessaries of life, when they are sufficiently equipped with things of that sort the just man needs people towards whom and with whom he shall act justly, and the temperate man, the brave man, and each of the others is in the same case, but the wise man, even when by himself, can contemplate truth, and the better the wiser he is; he can perhaps do so better if he has fellow-workers, but still he is the most self-sufficient. ~ Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

We only excite envy in a child by telling him to compare his own worth with the worth of others. ~ Immanuel Kant, Thoughts on Education

[A] social fact depends entirely on the willingness of people to treat it as a fact. ~ Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate, Chapter 4

Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first on the social level, and later, on the individual level. ~ Lev Vygotsky, Mind in Society

Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them. ~ Lev Vygotsky, Mind in Society

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