The child who concentrates is immensely happy

There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social environment the child should be considered and music should be provided.

The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.

When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength.

Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.

Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is filled with zeal, love, and a spirit of sacrifice on behalf of his child, unconsciously suppresses the development of the child's own personality.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."