At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.

For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.

An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.

Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.

Children become like the things they love.