in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child ... No slave was ever so much the property of his master as the child is of his parent ... Never were the rights of man ever so disregarded as in the case of the child.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

With younger children the greatest reward is to be able to pass on to a new stage in each subject. It is a punishment to a young child not to be allowed to use the apparatus but to sit still and do nothing.

Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.

Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.

in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.