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

Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.

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

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.

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