I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man. — Janusz Korczak Copy Share Image
Each person carries an entire world within himself, and everything exists twice: once the way it is, the other the way he perceives it… — Janusz Korczak Copy Share
To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights… — Janusz Korczak Copy Share
Life never gives more than partial liberation. Achievement can never be more than fragmentary. — Janusz Korczak Copy Share
The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher,… — Janusz Korczak Copy Share
If I had means, I would like to spend half a year in Palestine in order to contemplate what has been, and half a… — Janusz Korczak Copy Share
There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. Seek [within] the undiscovered part of… — Janusz Korczak Copy Share
I am a butterfly drunk with life. I don't know where to soar, but I won't allow life to clip my beautiful wings. — Janusz Korczak Copy Share
I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love… — Janusz Korczak Copy Share
Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary? — Janusz Korczak Copy Share
If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order. — Janusz Korczak Copy Share
Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head. — Janusz Korczak Copy Share
The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is. — Janusz Korczak Copy Share
“I never realized that a child is capable of remembering so well and of waiting so patiently” — Janusz Korczak Copy Share
