The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest.

If we really want children to grow into independent and resourceful adults, we should stop pouring their milk as soon as they have learned to pour it themselves and stop fastening their buttons as soon as they can fasten them without help.

Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.