The child endures all things.

A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.

The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.

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

The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.

But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.