Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

The social rights of children must be recognized so that a world suited to their needs may be constructed for them. The greatest crime that society commits is that of wasting the money which it should use for children on things that will destroy them and society itself as well.

Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.

Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.

The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.” “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a learning experience and less a punitive experience if appropriately dealt with.

in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.