The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.

We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready to supply the desired help, but may never be the obstacle between the child and his experience.

All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.

Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious about two fundamental things ... the first is the love of activity... The second fundamental thing is independence.

The child who concentrates is immensely happy

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.