Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

True interest appears when the self identifies itself with ideas or objects, when it finds in them a means of expression and they become a necessary form of fuel for its activity.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

How can we, with our adult minds, know what will be interesting? If you follow the child...you can find out something new.

Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?