Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.

Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.

To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

The development of the mind comes through movement