Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.

All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.

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

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations and observe his natural ways of acting. A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within himself the secret of human nature.