Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.

The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.

Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.

Teach by teaching, not by correcting

An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.

The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

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