Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.

There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.

The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving in return his gifts of hope and light.

Play is the work of the child.

The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.