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.

To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.

It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.

It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready to supply the desired help, but may never be the obstacle between the child and his experience.

The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.