He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by his intense attention, by his perseverance in the same exercise. That child has set foot upon the road leading to discipline.

Discipline must come through liberty.

Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

He who is served is limited in his independence.

Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity.