This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving in return his gifts of hope and light.

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

Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that are hereditary and characteristic of the human species. But the promise they hold can only be fulfilled through the experience of free activity conducted in the environment.

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.

The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.