“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”

“Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.”

“Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.”

“The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.”

“The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.”

“Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning.”

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