If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.

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.

In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

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.

How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.

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

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.