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.

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create.

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.

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

How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.