Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible.

The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research.

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.