Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence.

It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.

The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. This is the child!

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