The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

The child who concentrates is immensely happy

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.

All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.

We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little as possible to exhaust the child with our surveillance and instruction