Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

No one can be free unless he is independent.

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

It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.

The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.