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

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.

Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.

No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.

Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.

Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow.

We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.