Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

Discipline must come through liberty.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity, as often happens in old-time discipline . . . A room in which all the children move about usefully, intelligently, and voluntarily, without committing any rough or rude act, would seem to me a classroom very well disciplined indeed.

If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth.