The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.

What the hand does the mind remembers.

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

The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity, as often happens in old-time discipline . . . A room in which all the children move about usefully, intelligently, and voluntarily, without committing any rough or rude act, would seem to me a classroom very well disciplined indeed.

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.

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.