Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of...
It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportio...
We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.
Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the momen...
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.'
If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one's inner life, the second to one's life in so...
Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in...
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.
At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say...
There can be no substitute for work neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.