“The age that should be devoted to spiritual instructions is the same one that we have appointed for moral instructions. Every Sunday these must follow the o...

“Everyone knows that reading books is useful, and to prove whether it spreads light or hinders enlightenment means to expose oneself to ridicule; it means th...

“Education in general is the science of how to educate and teach children so that they become useful and pleasant for their family, for their fatherland, and...

“The rule, explained so well by Emil’s writer, but which would be inconsistent with the outline of public education, consists of combining instruction with a...

“But who should be entrusted with the preservation of so many rules, which contain so much importance? Who will be these guardians of common happiness, resto...

“Every kind of government has its own property, its own subject and its own special basis. Its property consists in an established legal provision that has a...

“Many concepts, thoughts and different opinions; a great number of prejudices that originate from ignorance and have become established over time; the consta...

“There is no need to make a punitive code for youth, but all this must be entrusted to the honesty and enlightenment of the main trustee and moral overseer; ...

“Two passions, one of which is small, dangerous, derogatory, and the other - elevating the character to majesty, to nobility, to benefit, stem from the same ...

“Man is an imitative animal. And in fact, of all the genera of animals, people, due to their physical disposition and greater perfection of sensitivity, are ...

“To raise, teach a child, to open his mind means to help him do tests, to communicate those that he himself has acquired, to instill concepts and opinions th...

“Nobility is the name among us for the distinction usually given to those who have come from those who have shown great services to the fatherland, and sover...