Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.

Discipline must come through liberty.

There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. For that is the time when a man's intelligence itself, his greatest implement, is being formed. But not only his intelligence; the full totality of his psychic powers.

If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

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.

Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace.

The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.