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.

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

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

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

The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind.

The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. This is the child!

Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.