Janusz Korczak quotes

Janusz Korczak was a renowned Polish-Jewish educator, children's author, and pediatrician. His innovative approaches to children's rights and child-centered education earned international respect. He dedicated his life to caring for orphans and ultimately refused to abandon them during the Holocaust. Here are 10 of his quotes:

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)

I never realized that a child is capable of remembering so well and of waiting so patiently.

Janusz Korczak

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

My greatest fault is that I am no longer a child.

Janusz Korczak

Take a look at the world and laugh.

Janusz Korczak

If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order.

Janusz Korczak

The lives of great men are like legends-difficult but beautiful.

Janusz Korczak

Life never gives more than partial liberation. Achievement can never be more than fragmentary.

Janusz Korczak

To reform the world - means to reform upbringing...

Janusz Korczak

Life bites like a dog.

Janusz Korczak

Janusz Korczak

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Occupation: Polish Educator
Born: July 22, 1878
Died: August 7, 1942
Quotes count: 10
Wikipedia: Janusz Korczak

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