Francis Wayland Parker Quotes

1837–1902 United States

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

Talks on Pedagogics (1894)

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

Talks on Pedagogics (1894)

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

Talks on Pedagogics (1894)

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.

Talks on Pedagogics (1894)

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