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

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

The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

Order is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it.

A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done

One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life even when he cannot manifest it, and that the child must secretly perfect this inner life over a long period of time.

We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.