The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect, but unless it be well done there will be no effective and permanent results of any kind, physical, intellectual or spiritual.

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

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is also necessary for his psychical life to place the soul of the child in contact with creation.

He who is served is limited in his independence.

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