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

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.

Order is ... the true key to rapidity of reaction.

Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."