Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.” “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a learning experience and less a punitive experience if appropriately dealt with.

Teach by teaching, not by correcting

The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.

Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done