In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.

A child needs freedom within limits.

The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. This is the child!

Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning.

Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

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