How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.

The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.

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."

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else...

The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

“Governments accountable to the voters focus on building roads and schools—not weapons of mass destruction.”

We need to be rid of the insane policy of environmentalism. No more 'green', anti-growth, anti-science environmental policy.

I wondered how much of me would be left after tomorrow.

Stop swimming around in your own mind. That is a dangerous neighborhood that you should not go into alone.

Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.

Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it.

There was a knight came riding by In early spring, when the roads were dry; And he heard that lady sing at the noon, Two red roses across the moon.