Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible.

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.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

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

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?

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.