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

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

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

We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something