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.

Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.

The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

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?

Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.

An adult who does not understand that a child needs to use his hands and does not recognize this as the first manifestation of an instinct for work can be an obstacle to the child's development

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.