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.'

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

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."

The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.