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.

Order is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it.

The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing

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.

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