Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.