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

All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.

The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself.

The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.” “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a learning experience and less a punitive experience if appropriately dealt with.

A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.

...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

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