The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.

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.

For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans.

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.

These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.

Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

If I don't eat soon, I'll die of hunger; and if I die, I won't eat soon.