If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be placed in order . . .

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

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.

Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create.

The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.

Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.