It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.

The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.

These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.

This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in a common aim, attracting them as to a single centre. Mothers, fathers, politicians: all must combine in their respect and help for this delicate work of formation, which the little child carries on in the depth of a profound psychological mystery, under the tutelage of an inner guide. This is the bright new hope for mankind.

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace.

Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.