The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development 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.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Real faith invariably produces holiness of heart and righteousness of life.

Maybe I'd like to be a little more than friends with Ryan Gosling, but I'd just like to hang out occasionally.

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

Children's games are stronger than you remember once you've grown up and left them behind. They're always fair, and never kind.

I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.

You can't get to genius on a platform of excuses.

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.