Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.

When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength.

The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.

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