• Where artificial, external means are not employed to generate interest towards knowledge; instead where the education system has taken to supporting natural inclination – such a system is known as a child-centric system of education.

• That system of education, which creates the mental attitude of self-reliance by squarely facing the emerging problems and resolving one’s problems by oneself, is known as the child-centric system of education.

• The new breed of teacher is different from the one who crammed information into the students’ heads and who exhausted himself and his students with the sole object of having to do well in exams. He has a different take on life. His measures for determining values in life are different.

• The new teacher firmly believes in man’s thirst for progress and that he is willing to go any distance to quench that thirst. He knows that the real purpose of education lies in enabling the fulfillment of hunger (for knowledge) through one’s own efforts.

• We have made ourselves the laughing stock of the world by our blind slavishness in following the superficialities of the westerners. We preen like peacocks in formal clothes even in the sweltering heat and bind ourselves in tight shoes, no matter that they are uncomfortable.

• Village urchins are curious about many things. They are seldom disinterested or tired. Indeed, they are sharp, strong, brilliant and keen.

• A child’s gradual distancing itself from elders, its wanting to do its own chores by itself, keeping itself occupied with something or the other and enjoying it – these are all the symptoms of a child’s growth.

• If fear and a feeling of inferiority take refuge in a child’s mind at an early age, it remains incompetent to shoulder responsibilities in later years. Frankly, these two diseases are like TB, always weakening the human mind.

• A child possesses an inborn curiosity and a zest for knowledge; and it has the strength to work for it. That is why competition should be avoided in their quest for knowledge. Competition is like poison. It is a sure way of killing the thirst for knowledge.

• You will be doing a great service to the future of your child if you keep this unholy pair of reward and punishment along with competition.

• It is not as if competition necessarily leads to success. It leads a child to think that it is enough to do the best amongst the limited group of a class, rather than doing the best that it is capable of. Many competent children, who otherwise have the potential for doing much better, thus, are satisfied with very little. They mistakenly begin to believe that doing well in the class is enough.

• Imparting education through the English medium has actually made the road to acquiring knowledge and communicating with others through the use of language - and enjoying the experience, more difficult.

• I sincerely feel that there is a need to revolt against forcing literacy on children – just as there is a need to revolt against the illiteracy of adults. It is this (haste for) literacy, which is responsible for damaging children’s eyes. This literacy suppresses their efforts and all their energy of striving for knowledge.