Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.

Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength, and the perfecting on one's powers, it is necessary to follow this path of unremitting toil.

There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. For that is the time when a man's intelligence itself, his greatest implement, is being formed. But not only his intelligence; the full totality of his psychic powers.

Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.

The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.