With younger children the greatest reward is to be able to pass on to a new stage in each subject. It is a punishment to a young child not to be allowed to use the apparatus but to sit still and do nothing.

The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something

Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.

Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

To consider the school as a place where instruction is given is one point of view. But, to consider the school as a preparation for life is another. In the latter case, the school must satisfy all the needs of life.

Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.