The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child.

If we try to think back to the dim and distant past... what is it that helps us reconstruct those times, and to picture the lives of those who lived in them? It is their art... It is thanks to the hand, the companion of the mind, that civilization has arisen.

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.

The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.