My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.

The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.

Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.

Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.

No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.