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

Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work.

If we really want children to grow into independent and resourceful adults, we should stop pouring their milk as soon as they have learned to pour it themselves and stop fastening their buttons as soon as they can fasten them without help.

The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.