Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth.

The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.

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