The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

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

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity.

The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

Order is ... the true key to rapidity of reaction.