Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.

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.

If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!

Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.

The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.

The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.