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.

How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.

No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a 'reward' or by the fear of what we call a 'punishment.'

Order is ... the true key to rapidity of reaction.

Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

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.

We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.