To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.
Play is the work of the child.
Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.
The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child.
The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Give children the opportunity to stir up life and leave them free to discover.
Education should no longer be mostly imparting knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.
A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done.
To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.
Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child’s mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.
The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.
Children become like the things they love.
All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.
The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
The child should love everything he learns. Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear. Once this love has been kindled, all problems confronting the educationalist will disappear.
Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace.
Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work.