We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in order to grow, and is working to create the adult, the person that is to be. Such experience is not just play... it is work he must do in order to grow up.

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.