Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength, and the perfecting on one's powers, it is necessary to follow this path of unremitting toil.

At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.

Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.

In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.

It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.

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