Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover.

The laws governing the universe can be made interesting and wonderful to the child, more interesting even that things in themselves, and he begins to ask: What am I? What is the task of man in this wonderful universe? Do we merely live here for ourselves, or is there something more for us to do? Why do we struggle and fight? What is good and evil? Where will it all end?

Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.

The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger. She is not like the ordinary teacher, limited by a syllabus. The needs of the child are clearly more difficult to answer.

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child