A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.

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 first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

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

When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, "I want to do it!" But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children's needs, they say, "Help me to do it alone." And these words reveal their inner needs.

We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.