A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.

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.

The child who concentrates is immensely happy

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

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

The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something

A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.