The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present

The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in the child tendencies to deviation.

The present practice is to impress one's own discoveries, opinions and principles on the child by constantly directing his actions. The last thing to be realised by the educator is that he really has before him an entirely new soul, a real self whose first and chief right is to think over the things with which he comes in contact.

The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action.

The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.