Alfred Adler Quotes


An educator's most important task, one might say his holy duty, is to see to it that no child is discouraged at school, and that a child who enters school already discouraged regains his self-confidence through his school and his teacher. This goes hand in hand with the vocation of the educator, for education is possible only with children who look hopefully and joyfully upon the future.


Citations

Adler, Alfred. The Education of Children. Greenberg, 1930, p. 115.

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Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler
  • Born: February 7, 1870
  • Died: May 28, 1937
  • Nationality: Austrian
  • Profession: Psychologist

Alfred Adler was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. His emphasis on the importance of feelings of inferiority, the inferiority complex, is recognized as an isolating element which plays a key role in personality development. Alfred Adler considered a human being as an individual whole, therefore he called his psychology "Individual Psychology" (Orgler 1976).