A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial force and energy, and a child absorbs his first images to assist the reason and act on it.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.

Red RodsBefore elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child's natural gifts. All that is needed is to remove the obstacles. And this should be the basis of, and point of departure for, all future education. The first thing to be done, therefore, is to discover the true nature of a child and then assist him in his normal development.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.