The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.

Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence ... Learning to walk is especially significant, not only because it is supremely complex, but because it is done in the first year of life.

Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

Children become like the things they love.

At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.