There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life

The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to say it was the mother who formed the child; for it is she who teaches him to walk, talk, and so on. But none of this is really done by the mother. It is an achievement of the child. What the mother brings forth is the baby, but it is the baby who produces the man. Should the mother die, the baby still grows up and completes his work of making the man.

It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.

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

These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.