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.

Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.

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

Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

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