Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.

To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.

Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.

Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing but live and walk about -- came to know all things, to carry in their minds the whole of learning; would you not think I was romancing? Well, just this, which seems so fanciful as to be nothing but the invention of a fertile imagination, is a reality. It is the child's way of learning.