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

There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything.

The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. This is the child!

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should be offered to the child, for his will be an immense field of chosen activity.

in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.

The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.