No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a 'reward' or by the fear of what we call a 'punishment.'

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

The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.

If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be placed in order . . .

Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.