The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

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

Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence ... Learning to walk is especially significant, not only because it is supremely complex, but because it is done in the first year of life.

The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.

The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this is the book of the teacher; this is the book which must inspire her actions . . .

To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.