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

The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.

It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.

What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.

The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.

But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is also necessary for his psychical life to place the soul of the child in contact with creation.

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