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

The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.

Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.

Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.

The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.

We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.

The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.” “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a learning experience and less a punitive experience if appropriately dealt with.