Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.

The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order to be able to educate our children is most difficult.

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something

The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form part of his soul. He incarnates in himself all in the world about him that his eyes see and his ears hear.

The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.