The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind.

The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind. It is the spirit of the child that can determine the course of human progress and lead it perhaps even to a higher form of civilization.

There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything.

The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child.

It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.

Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.