Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.

Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work.

Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order to be able to educate our children is most difficult.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.

The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.

Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover.