Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning.

A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done

The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."