The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.

Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.

Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.

Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind.

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.

Nothing is created or destroyed in nature.