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

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.

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

You are your best self when you give yourself away.

The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.

I'd like to meet you In a timeless placeless place Somewhere out of context And beyond all consequences.