The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize that the cornerstone of education is the development of the human personality, and that in this regard education is of immediate importance for the salvation of mankind.

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

Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

If education recognizes the intrinsic value of the child's personality and provides an environment suited to spiritual growth, we have the revelation of an entirely new child whose astonishing characteristics can eventually contribute to the betterment of the world.

By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he need the help of special scholastic influences. So great are the conquests he has made that one may well say: the child who goes to school at three is already a little man.

The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.

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