Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear, striking his imagination. Once this love has been kindled, all problems confronting the educationist will disappear.

At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.

Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious about two fundamental things ... the first is the love of activity... The second fundamental thing is independence.

Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.