The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.

All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.

The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through his unconscious power of absorption, though he is himself still immobile. After the age of three he is able to acquire a great number of concepts through his own efforts in exploring his surroundings. In this period he lays hold of things through his own activity and assimilates them into his mind.

The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.