The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.

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

The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through his unconscious power of absorption, though he is himself still immobile. After the age of three he is able to acquire a great number of concepts through his own efforts in exploring his surroundings. In this period he lays hold of things through his own activity and assimilates them into his mind.

There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything.