Occupation: Educator Birth: July 22, 1878 Death: August 6, 1942
Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to be treated by adults with te….
The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher, ….
If I had means, I would like to spend half a year in Palestine in order to contemplate what has been, and half a year in Poland in order to preserve ….
Dare to dream... something will always come of it.
My greatest fault is that I am no longer a child.
I am a butterfly drunk with life. I don't know where to soar, but I won't allow life to clip my beautiful wings..
I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned abo….
Each person carries an entire world within himself, and everything exists twice: once the way it is, the other the way he perceives it with his own e….
Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?.
Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect..
Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head..
The court does not fly off the handle. It does not shout abuse. It speaks calmly..
To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be….
The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is..
Man feels and ponders death as though it were the end, when in fact death is merely the continuation of life. It is another life. You may not believe….
A hundred children, a hundred individuals who are people--not people-to-be, not people of tomorrow, but people now, right now--today..
You will go on blundering, for only he who does nothing avoids errors..
Life is a circus ring, with some moments more spectacular than others..
I have signed a pact with life: we will not get in each other's way.
The lives of great men are like legends-difficult but beautiful..
There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. Seek [within] the undiscovered part of yourself. (emphasis….