Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is filled with zeal, love, and a spirit of sacrifice on behalf of his child, unconsciously suppresses the development of the child's own personality.

Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.