The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.

There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life

The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.

An adult who does not understand that a child needs to use his hands and does not recognize this as the first manifestation of an instinct for work can be an obstacle to the child's development

By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he need the help of special scholastic influences. So great are the conquests he has made that one may well say: the child who goes to school at three is already a little man.