To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.

Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.

The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.

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.