Play is the work of the child.

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

The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.

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.

As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.

There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest.

The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect, but unless it be well done there will be no effective and permanent results of any kind, physical, intellectual or spiritual.