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.

Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order to be able to educate our children is most difficult.

What advice can we give to new mothers? Their children need to work at an interesting occupation: they should not be helped unnecessarily, nor interrupted, once they have begun to do something intelligent.

The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.

Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.

To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.