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

But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create.

Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.

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

Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.