One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life even when he cannot manifest it, and that the child must secretly perfect this inner life over a long period of time.

Teach by teaching, not by correcting

The child becomes a person through work.

The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.

Nothing is created or destroyed in nature.

All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.

A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through his unconscious power of absorption, though he is himself still immobile. After the age of three he is able to acquire a great number of concepts through his own efforts in exploring his surroundings. In this period he lays hold of things through his own activity and assimilates them into his mind.