The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.

The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.

No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a 'reward' or by the fear of what we call a 'punishment.'

Discipline must come through liberty.

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.