Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work.

Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.

Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength, and the perfecting on one's powers, it is necessary to follow this path of unremitting toil.

Discipline must come through liberty.

It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.

It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.

The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.