The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.

The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

The laws governing the universe can be made interesting and wonderful to the child, more interesting even that things in themselves, and he begins to ask: What am I? What is the task of man in this wonderful universe? Do we merely live here for ourselves, or is there something more for us to do? Why do we struggle and fight? What is good and evil? Where will it all end?

The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.

No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.

A teacher, therefore, who would think that he could prepare himself for his mission through study alone would be mistaken. The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.