Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.
Janusz KorczakI exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.
Janusz KorczakIf you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order.
Janusz KorczakEach person carries an entire world within himself, and everything exists twice: once the way it is, the other the way he perceives it with his own eyes and feelings.
Janusz KorczakMan feels and ponders death as though it were the end, when in fact death is merely the continuation of life. It is another life. You may not believe in the existence of the soul, yet you must acknowledge that your body will live on as green grass, as a cloud. For you are, after all, water and dust.
Janusz Korczak