It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.

First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.

The real preparation for education is the study of one's self.

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization, and before such great forces we can recognize only one country-the entire world.

The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.

The child who concentrates is immensely happy