There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social environment the child should be considered and music should be provided.

A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well as physical, and for that we must offer grand and lofty ideas to the human mind.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.

What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.