How does he achieve this independence? He does it by means of a continuous activity. How does he become free? By means of constant effort. we know that development results from activity. The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.

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

Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.

The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect, but unless it be well done there will be no effective and permanent results of any kind, physical, intellectual or spiritual.