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

Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

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

Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.

Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.

The child's conquest of independence begins with his first introduction to life. While he is developing, he perfects himself and overcomes every obstacle that he finds in his path. A vital force is active within him, and this guides his efforts towards their goal. It is a force called the 'horme', by Sir Percy Nunn.