“Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.”

“The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.”

“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.”

“Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.”

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

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”

“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”

“I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.”

“I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.”

“If you want, you can be a child for the rest of your life and be a great LEARNER”

“The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood:how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time of life tolive without play and fairy tales! We give these ...”

“one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.”

“In order to answer the question Where am I going? you need to not understand your mission, but also work at self-improvement”

“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it”

“Has your soul a special mission? Yes. Your mission is in the inmost recesses of your heart, and you have to find and fulfil it there. There can be no external way for you to fulfil your mission. Th...”