Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization, and before such great forces we can recognize only one country-the entire world.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.

... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This does not mean just to amuse him and let him do what he likes. But it does mean that we have to adjust our minds to doing a work of collaboration with nature, to being obedient to one of her laws, the law which decrees that development comes from environmental experience.

The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned.

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.