Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

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

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.

Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.