Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.

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

We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.

The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind.

It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.

When the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to show him real things instead of making objects which represent ideas and closing them up in cupboards.