Discipline must come through liberty.

My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.

Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.

When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing

What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.

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

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.