The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential

The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge.

What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth.

Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.

Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow.