We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.

There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.

To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

Play is the work of the child.

All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.

A child needs freedom within limits.

Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow.