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 discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.

The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.

The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind.

A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial force and energy, and a child absorbs his first images to assist the reason and act on it.

in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.