The real preparation for education is the study of one's self.

There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.

If we try to think back to the dim and distant past... what is it that helps us reconstruct those times, and to picture the lives of those who lived in them? It is their art... It is thanks to the hand, the companion of the mind, that civilization has arisen.

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.

It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he can become strong, and, having become strong, can do even more than we dared hope for him.