The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.

The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself.

A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through his unconscious power of absorption, though he is himself still immobile. After the age of three he is able to acquire a great number of concepts through his own efforts in exploring his surroundings. In this period he lays hold of things through his own activity and assimilates them into his mind.

An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.

We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.