The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing but live and walk about -- came to know all things, to carry in their minds the whole of learning; would you not think I was romancing? Well, just this, which seems so fanciful as to be nothing but the invention of a fertile imagination, is a reality. It is the child's way of learning.

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. This idea helps the mind of the child to become fixed, to stop wandering in an aimless quest for knowledge. He is satisfied, having found the universal centre of himself with all things.

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

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.