Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity, as often happens in old-time discipline . . . A room in which all the children move about usefully, intelligently, and voluntarily, without committing any rough or rude act, would seem to me a classroom very well disciplined indeed.

Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.