A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.

Teach by teaching, not by correcting

The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.

The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect, but unless it be well done there will be no effective and permanent results of any kind, physical, intellectual or spiritual.

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

We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.