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

Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child ... No slave was ever so much the property of his master as the child is of his parent ... Never were the rights of man ever so disregarded as in the case of the child.

Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover.

Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.