Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence.

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

Order is ... the true key to rapidity of reaction.

The child endures all things.

My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.

The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

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