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

Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations and observe his natural ways of acting. A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within himself the secret of human nature.

The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.

Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.

A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.

If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be placed in order . . .

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