The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.

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

The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.

Teach by teaching, not by correcting

The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.

The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.

A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.