To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this is the book of the teacher; this is the book which must inspire her actions . . .

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.

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

There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest.

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. This idea helps the mind of the child to become fixed, to stop wandering in an aimless quest for knowledge. He is satisfied, having found the universal centre of himself with all things.