...at birth all children are alike, and need the same treatment or education during the stage of embryonic growth, of mental incarnation.

Psychically speaking, at birth there is nothing at all—zero! Indeed, not only psychically, for at birth the child is almost paralytic... These great...

The infant in arms has far greater mental energies than are usually imagined.

It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders - without effort and quite unconsciously.

The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.

At birth he frees himself from a prison, the mother's body, and achieves independence of the functions of the mother.

The chief characteristic of the human babe is intelligence, unlike the other animals who only need to awaken the instincts towards their behaviour....

At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.

At one year of age the child says his first intentional word...his babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof of conscious intelligence.....