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 undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.” “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a learning experience and less a punitive experience if appropriately dealt with.

The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.

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 child becomes a person through work.

The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.