We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.

If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.

Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.

The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to find his way. We proceed much the same when we divide the earth by meridians and parallels, for only thus do we obtain fixed points which we can bring into a relationship with one another.