The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.

To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

To consider the school as a place where instruction is given is one point of view. But, to consider the school as a preparation for life is another. In the latter case, the school must satisfy all the needs of life.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.