No one can be free unless he is independent.

The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

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

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work.

A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial force and energy, and a child absorbs his first images to assist the reason and act on it.