Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.

Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

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

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child