... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.

What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.

In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were, a head above himself. Play contains in a concentrated form, as in the focus of a magnifying glass, all developmental tendencies; it is as if the child tries to jump above his usual level.

Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him.

Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them

Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them

The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.