Red RodsBefore elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child's natural gifts. All that is needed is to remove the obstacles. And this should be the basis of, and point of departure for, all future education. The first thing to be done, therefore, is to discover the true nature of a child and then assist him in his normal development.

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.

Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.