Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society.

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.

Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

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

Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.

Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity.