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I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
The greatest happiness of a teacher is to send groups of children to the other shore of their ideals.
Owning stocks is like having children – don't get involved with more than you can handle.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand 'I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!' or 'I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!' 'I am homeless, the Government must house me!' and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first.
The soul is healed by being with children.
The teacher is not in school to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but is there as a member of the community to select the influences which shall affect the child and to assist him in properly responding to those influences.
Sometimes you may feel like you’re not good enough, but you have to remember that you are a child of God and that you are loved.
The art of education must be to bring the child to the point where he can educate himself.
The most important thing is to awaken in the child his own will and ability to create.
The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art—it must speak to the child's experience. To educate the whole child, his heart and his will must be reached, as well as the mind.
Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented,' changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.