The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.

The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

What advice can we give to new mothers? Their children need to work at an interesting occupation: they should not be helped unnecessarily, nor interrupted, once they have begun to do something intelligent.

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.

Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.

The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child.