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

Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.

The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.

Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas.

To have a vision of the cosmic plan, in which every form of life depends on directed movements which have effects beyond their conscious aim, is to understand the child's work and be able to guide it better.

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