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.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

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

The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life even when he cannot manifest it, and that the child must secretly perfect this inner life over a long period of time.

The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with it according to his own needs, tendencies and special interests. In this way, the objects become a means of growth.

It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.