The child should live in an environment of beauty.

The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.

How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.

... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This does not mean just to amuse him and let him do what he likes. But it does mean that we have to adjust our minds to doing a work of collaboration with nature, to being obedient to one of her laws, the law which decrees that development comes from environmental experience.

Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.