The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

The child becomes a person through work.

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

The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.

Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.

A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial force and energy, and a child absorbs his first images to assist the reason and act on it.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."