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

Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.

The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

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.

Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.