Author of quotes: Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev

A lack of a sense of humor is a sure sign of low intelligence, a misperception of the world around us and an inability to understand people's actions.

The crowd connects into one whole by the mood, and therefore it is necessary to speak with the crowd, not so much convincing as hoping to excite it with hot words.

Sometimes the suggestion and inoculation of ideas plays a much more prominent role than logical persuasion.

Belief as a factor of education has more value in the later age of the child, but to be used as early as possible, together with the child's comprehension of speech and developing the ability to reason.

The shortcomings of physical and moral development acquired in infancy and at the age of first childhood, often generally constitute irreparable evil that will not manage to cope in the later age.

The business of education is business nationwide. It must be part not only of individual persons but of the whole people, and where least the family has the opportunity to educate their children, and we need especially the help of public organizations pursuing the goal of education.

In relation to the development of a sense of good the most difficult to create any rules.

If a person with a degree gets a dissimilar the direction of the senses and the will, then his education can become a means or an instrument to the satisfaction of personal passions.

Education should create a personality with self initiative, with a critical attitude to everything around him.

The goal of any education should be the creation of an active personality in the best ideals of public life, ideals of truth, goodness and beauty.

Habit is a second nature of man, and education consists in the acquisition of skills, and it gives us this second nature.

If a patient after a conversation with a doctor is not getting easier, it is not a doctor.