Author of quotes: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

I try to enter children into the thick of life and to explain to them how any individual a good human trait, if it remains isolated and doesn't support all the good that there is in human nature, risks every time again to lose yourself in man or to such a direction that the same could easily lead to his downfall and to its improvement.

Learning scientific disciplines involves, therefore, the preliminary enjoyment of freedom, which it limits, just as vyrajenie an adult animal to a plow or cart is arbitrarily directed to the application of the forces that a young animal has acquired and developed during the period when it lived and walked free in the pasture.

The eye wants to see, ear to hear, the foot - walk and hand - grabbing. But also heart wants to believe and to love. The mind wants to think. In any Deposit of human nature contains a natural desire to withdraw from the state of deadness and ineptitude and become a developed force, which in an undeveloped state incorporated in the us only in the form of its embryo, and not the force.

A person's ability to perceive truth and justice, in essence, is a comprehensive, sublime, pure inclination, which can find their food in a simple, concise, but wide views, aspirations and feelings.

The aim should not be too early to make children adults; they need to be gradually developed in accordance with what the situation, circumstances awaiting them, that they may learn to bear the burden of life with ease and be happy.

Each of us is completely free, and only as free men we live, love active love and sacrifice themselves for the implementation of its goal.

School should instill in their students the skills of logical thinking, which are harmonized with the nature of man.

Anxiety is essentially a product of sensual sufferings or of sensual desires; it is the child of dire necessity or even more brutal selfishness.

The laws of nature are words of love not spoken before not ripen feelings.

The child is loved and believes before it begins to think and act.

There is a blind trust of the people to the schools, whatever they were.

Three forces together - the ability to care, ability for speech and the ability to think should be regarded as the totality of all means of developing mental powers.

There is no doubt that only one mother was able to lay the right Foundation sensual education of a person. Her real actions to which it impels one just naked instinct, are, in substance, correct natural means of moral education.

To change people, they need love. Impact on them in proportion to the love for them.