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This historical review of publications and trends in analytically oriented pedagogy has selected quotes from important authors with a survey of the current status of the relationship between psychoanalysts and educators. A quote from Anna Freud, stemming from her experience in the 1930's and referring to the application of analytic principles to teaching, would be applicable today: 'It will be a long time before theory and practice are complete and can be recommended for general use'. She suggested keeping a balance between those educational methods which would either have an injurious effect of too great repression on the one hand, and those methods which would lack all restraint on the other. Alice Balint's study, published in the 1930's in Hungary, emphasizes how important pedagogy is to a civilization, since it is the most revolutionary science. Reforms in education bring about a change in the civilization even when that was not the conscious intention. Examples of progress in the United States are reported with enthusiasm; at the same time a warning is given since in many places in Europe the achievements that were gained before World War II have disappeared.