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.

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

Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization, and before such great forces we can recognize only one country-the entire world.

A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.

It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.

Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.