The Very Forces That Liberty Has Set

Nothing Would More Effectively Further The Development Of Education Than For All Flogging Pedagogues To Learn To Educate With The Head Instead Of With The Hand.

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

When One Paints An Ideal, One Does Not Need To Limit One's Imagination.

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.

The Genius Of Happiness Is Still So Rare. To Possess It Means To Approach Life With The Humility Of A Beggar, But To Treat It With The Proud Generosity Of A Prince; To Bring To Its Totality The Deep Understanding Of A Great Poet And To Each Of Its Moments The Abandonment And Ingenuousness Of A Child.