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

Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.” “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a learning experience and less a punitive experience if appropriately dealt with.

in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.

There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything.

Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover.

Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create.