First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.

in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.

Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.

Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.

Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

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.

A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.