We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well as physical, and for that we must offer grand and lofty ideas to the human mind.

The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.

When the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to show him real things instead of making objects which represent ideas and closing them up in cupboards.

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

Education must start from birth.

Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.