One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.

If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be placed in order . . .

The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.

Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.