The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

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.

Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.

There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything.

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.

The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?