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.

A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.

Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is filled with zeal, love, and a spirit of sacrifice on behalf of his child, unconsciously suppresses the development of the child's own personality.

All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.

The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child.