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.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.

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 goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

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.

Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.