A teacher, therefore, who would think that he could prepare himself for his mission through study alone would be mistaken. The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

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

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.

There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything.

Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow.

A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done