There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything.

A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.

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

Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.

Teach by teaching, not by correcting

Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.

Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.