Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.

No one can be free unless he is independent.

Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.

Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas.

Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.

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.

Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.