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

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. This idea helps the mind of the child to become fixed, to stop wandering in an aimless quest for knowledge. He is satisfied, having found the universal centre of himself with all things.

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.

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

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

We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.