Discipline must come through liberty.

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.

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.

Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness

A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.