The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.

To consider the school as a place where instruction is given is one point of view. But, to consider the school as a preparation for life is another. In the latter case, the school must satisfy all the needs of life.

A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.

Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization, and before such great forces we can recognize only one country-the entire world.

The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.