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

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.

We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well as physical, and for that we must offer grand and lofty ideas to the human mind.

The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. This is the child!