No one can be free unless he is independent.

The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child.

A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.

The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality.

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger. She is not like the ordinary teacher, limited by a syllabus. The needs of the child are clearly more difficult to answer.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.