An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.

At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof of conscious intelligenceHe becomes ever more aware that language refers to his surroundings, and his wish to master it consciously becomes also greater.Subconsciously and unaided, he strains himself to learn, and this effort makes his success all the more astonishing.

Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

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

The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something