To have a vision of the cosmic plan, in which every form of life depends on directed movements which have effects beyond their conscious aim, is to understand the child's work and be able to guide it better.

It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.

We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.

Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.

To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child ... No slave was ever so much the property of his master as the child is of his parent ... Never were the rights of man ever so disregarded as in the case of the child.

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