Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.

Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he need the help of special scholastic influences. So great are the conquests he has made that one may well say: the child who goes to school at three is already a little man.

The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something

Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.

The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.