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

— Francis Wayland Parker Talks on Pedagogics (1894)

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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.

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

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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.

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