The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.

There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life

We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.

It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.

A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial force and energy, and a child absorbs his first images to assist the reason and act on it.

Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.