The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

The child will reveal himself through work.

Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.

Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.

The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.

The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.