When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing

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

When the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to show him real things instead of making objects which represent ideas and closing them up in cupboards.

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.

We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.