The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.
No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.
Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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.
Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.