Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.

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 child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned.

Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.

We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.