It is thanks to the hand, the companion of the mind, that civilization has arisen.

...all the changes in man’s environment are brought about by his hands.

If we are to walk, we must have ground to walk on; after we have learnt to walk, we may learn to jump, dance, etc., but we will still need the ground...

...action is connected with sight, for we need to see where we are setting our feet, and when our hands are at work we need to see what they are doing...

The grace and dignity of their behaviour and the ease of their movements are the corollaries to what they have gained through their own patient and...

It is imperative that a school allow a child's activities to freely develop.

By a habit of work a child learns how to move his muscles more than he does through ordinary gymnastic exercises.

I therefore began by having school equipment made proportionate to the size of the children that satisfied the need they had of moving about...

An analysis and economy of movement are bound together: to carry out no superfluous movements in the attainment of a goal is, in brief, the highest...

The strength of even the smallest children is more than we imagine, but it must have a free play in order to reveal itself.