No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential

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

There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.

One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life even when he cannot manifest it, and that the child must secretly perfect this inner life over a long period of time.

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind. It is the spirit of the child that can determine the course of human progress and lead it perhaps even to a higher form of civilization.