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

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with it according to his own needs, tendencies and special interests. In this way, the objects become a means of growth.

As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.