To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

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.

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.

The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding.

What kept me going through all the years? More than anything, the love of and respect for competition. That's what it comes down to for me. That's why I do this.

Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous

If I'm going to be a mess, I might as well be a hot mess, right?

In China, the social network is a bit different. But I am active there too.

The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.

love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in your veins.

I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.