Children Quotes

“The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.”

“The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one's self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in order to grow, and is working to create the adult, the person that is to be. Such experience is not just play... it is work he must do in order to grow up.”

“Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.”

“Play is the work of the child.”

“These words reveal the child's inner needs; 'Help me to do it alone'.”

“The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.”

“What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.”

“The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.”

“The first essential for the child's development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.”

“Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.”

“We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.”

“If we really want children to grow into independent and resourceful adults, we should stop pouring their milk as soon as they have learned to pour it themselves and stop fastening their buttons as soon as they can fasten them without help.”