We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

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.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.

What is working stain, does not soil.

It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

My favorite band was The Band, and nobody compares in my mind with The Band.

Beating John Landy was my defining race.

I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.

I learned to love dance for its own sake.