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 instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.

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

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?

The child endures all things.

The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.

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