The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.

Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.

The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.

No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a 'reward' or by the fear of what we call a 'punishment.'

The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.

Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.