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.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.