A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through his unconscious power of absorption, though he is himself still immobile. After the age of three he is able to acquire a great number of concepts through his own efforts in exploring his surroundings. In this period he lays hold of things through his own activity and assimilates them into his mind.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

What advice can we give to new mothers? Their children need to work at an interesting occupation: they should not be helped unnecessarily, nor interrupted, once they have begun to do something intelligent.

The child endures all things.

Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.

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