Play is the work of the child.

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.

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

Why any one place should forever hold enchantment for the reason you are born there is a mystery.

You always had the power, my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself. Glinda the Good Witch

Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

God has really blessed me with the ability to put me ahead of the class.

Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.