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 child endures all things.

The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.

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.'

The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.

The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.