When the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to show him real things instead of making objects which represent ideas and closing them up in cupboards.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind. It is the spirit of the child that can determine the course of human progress and lead it perhaps even to a higher form of civilization.

No one can be free unless he is independent.

Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.

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

The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.