It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have done this we have robbed him of his greatest right, the right to construct his own personality.

The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life even when he cannot manifest it, and that the child must secretly perfect this inner life over a long period of time.

If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.