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.

Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.

A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

The laws governing the universe can be made interesting and wonderful to the child, more interesting even that things in themselves, and he begins to ask: What am I? What is the task of man in this wonderful universe? Do we merely live here for ourselves, or is there something more for us to do? Why do we struggle and fight? What is good and evil? Where will it all end?

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.