A child needs freedom within limits.

The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.

Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.

The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.

The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction.

It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.