Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden... The pupil is in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite.

Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.