Order is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it.

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

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.

Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength, and the perfecting on one's powers, it is necessary to follow this path of unremitting toil.

The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.

The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential

The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.