Education Can Give You A Skill, But

The Educator Must Above All Understand How To Wait; To Reckon All Effects In The Light Of The Future, Not Of The Present.

At Every Step The Child Should Be Allowed To Meet The Real Experience Of Life; The Thorns Should Never Be Plucked From His Roses.

The Belief That We Some Day Shall Be Able To Prevent War Is To Me One With The Belief In The Possibility Of Making Humanity Really Human.

All Philanthropy — No Age Has Seen More Of It Than Our Own — Is Only A Savoury Fumigation Burning At The Mouth Of A Sewer.

For Success In Training Children The First Condition Is To Become As A Child Oneself, But This Means No Assumed Childishness, No Condescending Baby-talk That The Child Immediately Sees Through And Deeply Abhors. What It Does Mean Is To Be As Entirely And Simply Taken Up With The Child As The Child Himself Is Absorbed By His Life.