Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.

No one can be free unless he is independent.

The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality.

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

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing but live and walk about -- came to know all things, to carry in their minds the whole of learning; would you not think I was romancing? Well, just this, which seems so fanciful as to be nothing but the invention of a fertile imagination, is a reality. It is the child's way of learning.

Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.