Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.

Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence ... Learning to walk is especially significant, not only because it is supremely complex, but because it is done in the first year of life.

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child ... No slave was ever so much the property of his master as the child is of his parent ... Never were the rights of man ever so disregarded as in the case of the child.

The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.

Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.