The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

Play is the work of the child.

There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the mind.' And when we think of intellectual activity, we always imagine people sitting still, motionless. But 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.

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

Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.