Here are some Selections from the book.

Be yourself and seek your own path.
Know yourself before you attempt to get to know children.
Become aware of what you yourself are capable of
Before you attempt to outline the rights and responsibilities of children.
First and foremost you must realize that you too are a child,
Whom you must first get to know, to bring up and to educate.
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If a child trust you with his secret, be grateful
For his confidence is the highest prize...
But do not extort it for the child has a right to his secret.
Do not plead or threaten, as each is equally bad.
It will not bring the child closer to you,
But rather move him away.
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The child is not foolish
There are no more fools among them than adults
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Ungrateful.
Is the earth grateful to the sun for shining on it?
Is the tree grateful to the seed that it grew out of?
Does the nightingale sing to his mother, Thanking her that she used to keep him warm with her breast feathers?
Do you make a gift to the child of everything which you have received from your parents
Or do you only lend it to him in order to take it back again, writing everything down carefully and calculating the amount of interest due?
Is love a favour for which you demand remuneration?
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The child's thinking is neither more limited nor inferior to that of an adult.
It is different.
The child thinks with feelings and not with the intellect.
That is why communication is so complicated.
And speaking with children is a difficult art.
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When is the proper time for a child to start walking?
When she does.
When should his teeth start cutting?
When they do.
How many hours should a baby sleep?
As long as she needs to.
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The child must be seen as a foreigner,
Who does not speak our language
And who is ignorant of the laws and customs.
Occasionally she likes to go sightseeing on her own
And when lost will ask for information and advice.
Wanted - a guide to answer questions politely and patiently.
Treat her ignorance with respect.
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The child is honest.
When he does not answer, he answers.
For he doesn't want to lie and he cannot say the truth. To my surprise, I have stumbled on a new thought.
Silence is sometimes the highest expression of honesty.
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I have noticed that only fools insist that all human beings should be alike.
The wise are glad that in the world there is day and night, summer and winter, old and young.
That there are butterflies in the garden and birds in the sky.
That the flowers and the eyes of people come in different colours.
That God, who created humans, created them male and female.
Only those who do not like to think are grieved by difference
And irritated by the variety that compels us to think, to see and to understand.
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I should like to mention here the mutual love of parents.
It is true the child seldom senses the lack of it when it is nor there,
But he does absorb it when it is
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