We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.

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

If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

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.

The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.

If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth.