No one can be free unless he is independent.

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

The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.

The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect, but unless it be well done there will be no effective and permanent results of any kind, physical, intellectual or spiritual.

An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.

Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.

The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.