Students, in order to succeed, need to catch up with those who are ahead, and do not wait for those who are falling behind.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Boring lessons are only suitable for instilling hatred both to those who give them and to what is taught.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

If I don't impose anything on people, they become what they are.

A child is our mediator in dealing with reality.

To respect a child is to offer them a model of behavior and to give them the opportunity not to follow it.

I should like to teach others how to understand and love that wonderful
effervescent creative "I don't know" as regards contemporary knowledge of the child , replete with dazzling surprises.