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

Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is filled with zeal, love, and a spirit of sacrifice on behalf of his child, unconsciously suppresses the development of the child's own personality.

To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind.

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.