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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

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The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

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If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be ...more

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

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We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through e...more

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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the...more

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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the...more

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Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fit...more

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The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

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We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being...more

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Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light...more

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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

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At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The ...more