The Chief Danger In Life Is That

Everything Can Always Be Different!

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.

What Do You First Do When You Learn To Swim? You Make Mistakes, Do You Not? And What Happens? You Make Other Mistakes, And When You Have Made All The Mistakes You Possibly Can Without Drowning - And Some Of Them Many Times Over - What Do You Find? That You Can Swim? Well - Life Is Just The Same As Learning To Swim! Do Not Be Afraid Of Making Mistakes, For There Is No Other Way Of Learning How To Live!

In The Company Of Friends, Writers Can Discuss Their Books, Economists The State Of The Economy, Lawyers Their Latest Cases, And Businessmen Their Latest Acquisitions, But Mathematicians Cannot Discuss Their Mathematics At All. And The More Profound Their Work, The Less Understandable It Is.

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.