How does he achieve this independence? He does it by means of a continuous activity. How does he become free? By means of constant effort. we know that development results from activity. The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.

We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.

A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. This is the child!

It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.

Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.