The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

Discipline must come through liberty.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

Order is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it.

A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.