The new education does not consist in merely providing means for the development of individual actions, but also in giving a child the freedom of...

...a child should be left free to choose the objects he wishes. The more the obstacles that stand between a child and the object to which his soul...

The first idea that a child must acquire on order to be actively disciplined is the difference between right and wrong; and it is the duty of the...

There is therefore a formative period in which the actions have no external scope or application. We find analogous facts connected with the...

How he is to use what he has learned is a task for his own conscience, an exercise of his own responsibility. He is thus freed from the greatest of...

Exercises in keeping their balance and in analysing their various movements helps the children to perfect all their acts. They force a child to use...

It would seem to me that children are very well disciplined indeed when they can all move around in a room in a useful, intelligent, and free fashion...

A child's liberty should have at its limit the interests of the group to which he belongs.... We should therefore prevent a child from doing anything...

No one can be free if he is not independent, therefore, in order to attain this independence, the active manifestations of personal liberty must be...

A system of education that is based on liberty ought to aim at assisting a child in obtaining it, and should have as its specific aim the freeing of...