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

Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.

All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.

Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger. She is not like the ordinary teacher, limited by a syllabus. The needs of the child are clearly more difficult to answer.

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

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.