We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.

Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.

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

If we try to think back to the dim and distant past... what is it that helps us reconstruct those times, and to picture the lives of those who lived in them? It is their art... It is thanks to the hand, the companion of the mind, that civilization has arisen.