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...

In the first days of life, it is clear that something of the utmost importance is taking place....he has 'potentialities' able to bring about his...

And thus the new-born child is not only a body ready to function as a body, but a spiritual embryo with latent psychic capacities. It would be absurd...

We must not help the child to walk, and if his hands wants to work, we must give him motives of activity, and leave him to proceed to ever greater...

The feeling we should have towards the new-born baby is not the compassion that we have for the sick or weak, but reverence before the mystery of...