The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.

At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof of conscious intelligenceHe becomes ever more aware that language refers to his surroundings, and his wish to master it consciously becomes also greater.Subconsciously and unaided, he strains himself to learn, and this effort makes his success all the more astonishing.

It is almost possible to say that there is a mathematical relationship between the beauty of his surroundings and the activity of the child; he will make discoveries rather more voluntarily in a gracious setting than in an ugly one.

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

The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.

Children become like the things they love.

A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.