The real preparation for education is the study of one’s self. The training of the teacher who is to help life is something far more than the learning...

We must be taught and we must be willing to accept guidance if we wish to become effective teachers.

That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendour during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of...

A teacher is destined by his own special work to observe not simply insects or protozoa but man. And the man he is destined to observe is not one busy...

...the principle that a teacher must have special training that is not simply intellectual but which also touches the heart... is only a first, if...

He will learn from the child himself the ways and means to his own education, that is he will learn from the child how to perfect himself as a teacher...

We must create in the soul of the teacher a general interest in the manifestation of natural phenomena until he comes to the point where he loves and...

We may define a scientist as one who during the course of an experiment has perceived something that leads to a further investigation of the profound...

If teaching is to be effective with young children, it must assist them to advance on the way to independence.

The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work. She must free herself...