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

We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.

Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.

The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.

The laws governing the universe can be made interesting and wonderful to the child, more interesting even that things in themselves, and he begins to ask: What am I? What is the task of man in this wonderful universe? Do we merely live here for ourselves, or is there something more for us to do? Why do we struggle and fight? What is good and evil? Where will it all end?

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.