The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in the child tendencies to deviation.

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

The present practice is to impress one's own discoveries, opinions and principles on the child by constantly directing his actions. The last thing to be realised by the educator is that he really has before him an entirely new soul, a real self whose first and chief right is to think over the things with which he comes in contact.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.