The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.

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.

With younger children the greatest reward is to be able to pass on to a new stage in each subject. It is a punishment to a young child not to be allowed to use the apparatus but to sit still and do nothing.

Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.

Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.

To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.