Children become like the things they love.

The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child.

The development of the mind comes through movement

The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to say it was the mother who formed the child; for it is she who teaches him to walk, talk, and so on. But none of this is really done by the mother. It is an achievement of the child. What the mother brings forth is the baby, but it is the baby who produces the man. Should the mother die, the baby still grows up and completes his work of making the man.

Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.

Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.