The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.

There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.

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

It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have done this we have robbed him of his greatest right, the right to construct his own personality.

A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.

The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form part of his soul. He incarnates in himself all in the world about him that his eyes see and his ears hear.