Word: precept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...system that will do its work well through the incorporation of scientific principles, rather than by dependency on the rare teacher of "Humanitas." He adds to that plea, the tried and proved remedies for the specific sores in the sleeping body of learning. There is no sounder precept of progress than this...
...mentally or physically sick must become "master of himself" when at liberty. Platonically, he has then become disciplined. Parents are assured that Montessori-trained children are not told, ballad-wise: "If you feel like yelling, yell like hell!" Anti-social behavior is anticipated by the second precept, an appeal to the individual "mysterious life-force," curiosity...