The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.

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

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. This is the child!

Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations and observe his natural ways of acting. A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within himself the secret of human nature.