From Yu.B. Gippenreiter. Parents: how to be a child. Head: Alexander Nill. Freedom education
What is the task of psychology? I suggest the word «treatment». However, I don’t want to be cured of a preference for orange or black; from my addiction to smoking, as well as from my attachment to a bottle of beer. No teacher in the world has the right to treat a child for the desire to make noise from the drum. The only thing that can be cured is unhappiness.
A difficult child is an unhappy child. He is at war with himself, and therefore with the whole world.
A difficult adult sits in the same boat. No happy man has ever disturbed a meeting, preached war, or lynched a Negro. No happy woman has ever found fault with her husband or children. No happy man has ever killed or stolen. No happy boss has ever kept his subordinates in fear.