No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

What a desire! ... to live in peace with that word: Myself.

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?

Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.