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

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

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!

Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social environment the child should be considered and music should be provided.

Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious about two fundamental things ... the first is the love of activity... The second fundamental thing is independence.