A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.

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.

Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.

The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.

Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.