The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity, as often happens in old-time discipline . . . A room in which all the children move about usefully, intelligently, and voluntarily, without committing any rough or rude act, would seem to me a classroom very well disciplined indeed.

The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

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

Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment.

The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

Of all things love is the most potent.

Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society.