There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.

At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.

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

The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.

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

To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned.