Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. This idea helps the mind of the child to become fixed, to stop wandering in an aimless quest for knowledge. He is satisfied, having found the universal centre of himself with all things.

The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.

We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.

Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.