We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.

Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.

The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.

He who is served is limited in his independence.

No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.

A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.