What the hand does the mind remembers.

We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.

To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.

An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.