To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he need the help of special scholastic influences. So great are the conquests he has made that one may well say: the child who goes to school at three is already a little man.

It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.

Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.

If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!

Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.