This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.

It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.