The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.

It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.

Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

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.

My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.