Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail to do so will slowly perish. . . . There must be re-education of the will and of the heart as well as of the intellect; and the ideals of service must supplant those of selfishness and greed.

Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.

Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them

Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.