Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.

We must be educated in inner human modesty, so we can recognize that we are not, even for a moment, complete as human beings. Instead, we continue to develop from birth until death. We must recognize that every day of life has a special value, that it is not without purpose that we must learn to live through our thirties right after we have just gone through our twenties. We need to learn that each new day and each new year offers continual revelation.

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

Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.

To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.

Spirit is never without matter, matter is never without spirit.

In the future every human shall see a hidden divinity in every fellow human.