Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.

Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them

Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.

Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.

Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.