The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

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