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

The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.

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

A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy.

The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger. She is not like the ordinary teacher, limited by a syllabus. The needs of the child are clearly more difficult to answer.