Order is ... the true key to rapidity of reaction.

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment.

Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.

The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society.

What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.