Children have an absorbent mind. They absorb knowledge from the environment without fatigue. [...] This is the moment in the life of man when we can do something for the betterment of humanity and further brotherhood.

If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher.  

There slumber in every human being faculties by means of which he can acquire for himself a knowledge of higher worlds. Mystics, Gnostics, Theosophists — all speak of a world of soul and spirit which for them is just as real as the world we see with our physical eyes and touch with our physical hands.

To educate is always easier than to re-educate.

We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

Give children the freedom to choose their work, to decide the timing and pace of this work, and everything will have changed.

A hundred children, a hundred individuals who are people--not people-to-be, not people of tomorrow, but people now, right now--today.

The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world