Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.
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.
Children become like the things they love.
The development of the mind comes through movement
Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.
The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.