Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready to supply the desired help, but may never be the obstacle between the child and his experience.

In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create.

Education must start from birth.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself.