Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.

To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. For that is the time when a man's intelligence itself, his greatest implement, is being formed. But not only his intelligence; the full totality of his psychic powers.

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.