Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.

Most naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher.

When man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain his uprightness. But this is, to speak in the Goethean sense, the archetypal phenomenon of social science. This sleeping-into we may call the social principle, the social impulse of the new era: we have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.

Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.

When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.

Only when I follow my love for my objective is it I myself who act.

Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher.