Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.

An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual, and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by his intense attention, by his perseverance in the same exercise. That child has set foot upon the road leading to discipline.

Nothing is created or destroyed in nature.

We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.