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

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.

Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.

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

The child endures all things.

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

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should be offered to the child, for his will be an immense field of chosen activity.