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

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.

We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.

Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

Children become like the things they love.