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

If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.

Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.

A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through his unconscious power of absorption, though he is himself still immobile. After the age of three he is able to acquire a great number of concepts through his own efforts in exploring his surroundings. In this period he lays hold of things through his own activity and assimilates them into his mind.