A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.

No one can be free unless he is independent.

We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.

The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality.

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life even when he cannot manifest it, and that the child must secretly perfect this inner life over a long period of time.