No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a 'reward' or by the fear of what we call a 'punishment.'

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 teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.

If we really want children to grow into independent and resourceful adults, we should stop pouring their milk as soon as they have learned to pour it themselves and stop fastening their buttons as soon as they can fasten them without help.

Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.

If we try to think back to the dim and distant past... what is it that helps us reconstruct those times, and to picture the lives of those who lived in them? It is their art... It is thanks to the hand, the companion of the mind, that civilization has arisen.