A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.

Order is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it.

The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth.

The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.

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