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

The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

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

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. This idea helps the mind of the child to become fixed, to stop wandering in an aimless quest for knowledge. He is satisfied, having found the universal centre of himself with all things.

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.

Order is ... the true key to rapidity of reaction.

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