Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.

The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned.

What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.