Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence ... Learning to walk is especially significant, not only because it is supremely complex, but because it is done in the first year of life.

But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is also necessary for his psychical life to place the soul of the child in contact with creation.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.

Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.

The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential