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

If we really want children to grow into independent and resourceful adults, we should stop pouring their milk as soon as they have learned to pour it themselves and stop fastening their buttons as soon as they can fasten them without help.

The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.

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.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.

One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life even when he cannot manifest it, and that the child must secretly perfect this inner life over a long period of time.