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

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.

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

Discipline must come through liberty.

Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization, and before such great forces we can recognize only one country-the entire world.

Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.

Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create.