The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.

A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.

The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.

Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity.

As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.