We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.

A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.

A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.

Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.

Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.

Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength, and the perfecting on one's powers, it is necessary to follow this path of unremitting toil.