If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

A child needs freedom within limits.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity, as often happens in old-time discipline . . . A room in which all the children move about usefully, intelligently, and voluntarily, without committing any rough or rude act, would seem to me a classroom very well disciplined indeed.

A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.

Discipline must come through liberty.