He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

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

The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.

The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.