A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.

The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.

The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.

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.

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.

A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.