Most naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher.

Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.

The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art-it must speak to the child's experience. To educate the whole child, his heart and his will must be reached, as well as the mind.

When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other.

We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are human in the truest sense of the word.

To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.

Institutions have processes favoring efficiency over loss, and process over people.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.

It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.

A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.

The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.

Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.

Well, David Eckstein, like most of us, has 20 digits. Ten fingers. Ten toes.

Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving.