Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work.

The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with it according to his own needs, tendencies and special interests. In this way, the objects become a means of growth.

The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything.

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.