The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child.

A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.

The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.

An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.

The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child ... No slave was ever so much the property of his master as the child is of his parent ... Never were the rights of man ever so disregarded as in the case of the child.

A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial force and energy, and a child absorbs his first images to assist the reason and act on it.