The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

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

He who is served is limited in his independence.

Order is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it.

The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.