Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence ... Learning to walk is especially significant, not only because it is supremely complex, but because it is done in the first year of life.

The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is also necessary for his psychical life to place the soul of the child in contact with creation.

When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength.

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.

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.