Unless Man Can Make New And Original

One Of The Most Revolutionary Concepts To Grow Out Of Our Clinical Experience Is The Growing Recognition That Innermost Core Of Man's Nature - The Deepest Layers Of His Personality, The Base Of His 'animal Nature' - Is Basically Socialized, Forward-moving, Rational And Realistic... He Is Realistically Able To Control Himself, And He Is Incorrigibly Socialized In His Desires. There Is No Beast In Man, There Is Only Man In Man.

I Think My Deepest Criticism Of The Educational System . . . Is That It's All Based Upon A Distrust Of The Student. Don't Trust Him To Follow His Own Leads; Guide Him; Tell Him What To Do; Tell Him What He Should Think; Tell Him What He Should Learn. Consequently At The Very Age When He Should Be Developing Adult Characteristics Of Choice And Decision Making, When He Should Be Trusted On Some Of Those Things, Trusted To Make Mistakes And To Learn From Those Mistakes, He Is, Instead, Regimented And Shoved Into A Curriculum, Whether It Fits Him Or Not.

There Is Direction But There Is No Destination

If I Were To Search For The Central Core Of Difficulty In People As I Have Come To Know Them, It Is That In The Great Majority Of Cases They Despise Themselves, Regarding Themselves As Worthless And Unlovable.

I Prize The Privilege Of Being Alone.