When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

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

Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence.

Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations and observe his natural ways of acting. A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within himself the secret of human nature.

Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity.