The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.

There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. For that is the time when a man's intelligence itself, his greatest implement, is being formed. But not only his intelligence; the full totality of his psychic powers.

In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet; they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit.

The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.

The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.

The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.