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

If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than just arouse his interest, for it will create in him admiration and wonder, a feeling loftier than any interest and more satisfying.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

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

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.

Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence.