Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.

What advice can we give to new mothers? Their children need to work at an interesting occupation: they should not be helped unnecessarily, nor interrupted, once they have begun to do something intelligent.

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.

The child should live in an environment of beauty.

The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.