The development of the mind comes through movement

Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.

With younger children the greatest reward is to be able to pass on to a new stage in each subject. It is a punishment to a young child not to be allowed to use the apparatus but to sit still and do nothing.

Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.

The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.