in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

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

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. This idea helps the mind of the child to become fixed, to stop wandering in an aimless quest for knowledge. He is satisfied, having found the universal centre of himself with all things.

It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.

Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.