Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.

It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready to supply the desired help, but may never be the obstacle between the child and his experience.

Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.

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

Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization, and before such great forces we can recognize only one country-the entire world.

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene, it is destroyed. This degree of thought, which we attain by freeing ourselves from the external world, must be fed by the inner spirit, and our surroundings cannot influence us in any way other than to leave us in peace.