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

If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth.

It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have done this we have robbed him of his greatest right, the right to construct his own personality.

It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.

The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.

The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.