If I had means, I would like to spend half a year in Palestine in order to contemplate what has been, and half a year in Poland in order to preserve what remains.
Janusz KorczakWhatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.
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 KorczakA hundred children, a hundred individuals who are people--not people-to-be, not people of tomorrow, but people now, right now--today.
Janusz KorczakChildren are not the people of tomorrow, but people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to be treated by adults with tenderness and respect, as equals. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be - The unknown person inside each of them is the hope for the future.
Janusz Korczak