The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.

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.

One more thing...

Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.

The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For him such memories are bitter ones.

Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo; and the happier he

I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

It's what I always dreamed of: that you can make TV and everyone would get out of your way and you follow your vision without watering it down.

I'm used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I'm comfortable at all with them.

The possibility to go on indefinitely with our lives may become a reality and it will present us with a temptation.