Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

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Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

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

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

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