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

For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.

The child will reveal himself through work.

No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.

Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.

We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.