Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.

Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

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.

The child endures all things.

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

My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.