The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.

A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done

It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.

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

But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is also necessary for his psychical life to place the soul of the child in contact with creation.