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

We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little as possible to exhaust the child with our surveillance and instruction

Children become like the things they love.

The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.

The child should live in an environment of beauty.

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.