The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form part of his soul. He incarnates in himself all in the world about him that his eyes see and his ears hear.

The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.

Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.

Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.

These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.

A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.