Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.

In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet; they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit.

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.

Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.

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