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.

We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.

Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.

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

Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization, and before such great forces we can recognize only one country-the entire world.

One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life even when he cannot manifest it, and that the child must secretly perfect this inner life over a long period of time.