The child becomes a person through work.

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.

Stories are there to entertain, preserve history, or serve a societal purpose of some kind.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

In the city, we work until quitting time. On the farm, we work until the job is finished.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter.

In the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.