The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction.

Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization, and before such great forces we can recognize only one country-the entire world.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

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.

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

The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.

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