Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.

The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.

Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.

In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.