We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.

We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.

This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving in return his gifts of hope and light.

By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he need the help of special scholastic influences. So great are the conquests he has made that one may well say: the child who goes to school at three is already a little man.

In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.