The social rights of children must be recognized so that a world suited to their needs may be constructed for them. The greatest crime that society commits is that of wasting the money which it should use for children on things that will destroy them and society itself as well.

Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.

In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet; they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit.

There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.

The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.