Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.

We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!

Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.

Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.

The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society.

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.