In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet; they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit.

Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

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.