Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas.

The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.

The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned.

We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.

Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover.

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.