The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.

Teach by teaching, not by correcting

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in order to grow, and is working to create the adult, the person that is to be. Such experience is not just play... it is work he must do in order to grow up.

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

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives.