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."

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

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

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!