The children are now working as if I did not exist.

For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow.

If we try to think back to the dim and distant past... what is it that helps us reconstruct those times, and to picture the lives of those who lived in them? It is their art... It is thanks to the hand, the companion of the mind, that civilization has arisen.

The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

The child becomes a person through work.

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.