It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.

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.

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!

Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.

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 only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child