There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.

Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.

The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.

If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

The children are now working as if I did not exist.

He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth.