Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.

The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

With younger children the greatest reward is to be able to pass on to a new stage in each subject. It is a punishment to a young child not to be allowed to use the apparatus but to sit still and do nothing.

The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger. She is not like the ordinary teacher, limited by a syllabus. The needs of the child are clearly more difficult to answer.

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.