It Is Very Obvious That We Are

Our Modern States Are Preparing For War Without Even Knowing The Future Enemy.

The Human Mind Shows An Urge To Capture Into Fixed Forms Through Unreal Assumptions, That Is, Fictions, That Which Is Chaotic, Always In Flux, And Incomprehensible. Serving This Urge, The Child Quite Generally Uses A Scheme In Order To Act And To Find His Way. We Proceed Much The Same When We Divide The Earth By Meridians And Parallels, For Only Thus Do We Obtain Fixed Points Which We Can Bring Into A Relationship With One Another.

It Is Easy To Believe That Life Is Long And One's Gifts Are Vast -- Easy At The Beginning, That Is. But The Limits Of Life Grow More Evident; It Becomes Clear That Great Work Can Be Done Rarely, If At All.

To All Those Who Walk The Path Of Human Cooperation War Must Appear Loathsome And Inhuman.

An Educator's Most Important Task, One Might Say His Holy Duty, Is To See To It That No Child Is Discouraged At School, And That A Child Who Enters School Already Discouraged Regains His Self-confidence Through His School And His Teacher. This Goes Hand In Hand With The Vocation Of The Educator, For Education Is Possible Only With Children Who Look Hopefully And Joyfully Upon The Future.