The child will reveal himself through work.

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

Red RodsBefore elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child's natural gifts. All that is needed is to remove the obstacles. And this should be the basis of, and point of departure for, all future education. The first thing to be done, therefore, is to discover the true nature of a child and then assist him in his normal development.

Order is ... the true key to rapidity of reaction.

Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.