“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 moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.”

“If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.”

“If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.”

“How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?”

“Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.”

“If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.”

“When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.”

“Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.”

“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.”

“The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.”

“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 society.”