To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind.

The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.

It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.