What the hand does the mind remembers.

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.

It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.

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

First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.