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.

The child who concentrates is immensely happy

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.

Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.

There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything.

Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work.