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

The children are now working as if I did not exist.

in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.