Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.

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 task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity, as often happens in old-time discipline . . . A room in which all the children move about usefully, intelligently, and voluntarily, without committing any rough or rude act, would seem to me a classroom very well disciplined indeed.

Order is ... the true key to rapidity of reaction.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.