Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness

We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.

Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.

Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.