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.

Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.

How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.

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

The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.

Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is filled with zeal, love, and a spirit of sacrifice on behalf of his child, unconsciously suppresses the development of the child's own personality.