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

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

Discipline must come through liberty.

But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is also necessary for his psychical life to place the soul of the child in contact with creation.

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.

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

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