The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.

The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.

The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction.

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.

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.

Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.