The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality.

Education must start from birth.

The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.

The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.