An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.

Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.

Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization, and before such great forces we can recognize only one country-the entire world.

The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations and observe his natural ways of acting. A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within himself the secret of human nature.