When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
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.
