When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength.

These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.

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 child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.

The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.

The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.