The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.

Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence.

The child should live in an environment of beauty.

Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.

The children are now working as if I did not exist.

There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. For that is the time when a man's intelligence itself, his greatest implement, is being formed. But not only his intelligence; the full totality of his psychic powers.

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