Liberty is not to be free to do anything one likes; it is to be able to act without help.

So we realise that in order to develop the individual needs to display effort, to exercise himself and not be dependent on others. Now this...

A teacher who is urged on by a profound reverence for life, while she is making her interesting observations, should respect the gradual unfolding of...

The life of a child is not an abstraction; it is something that is lived by each one in particular. There is only one real biological manifestation...

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...

From a biological point of view, the concept of liberty in the education of very young children should be understood as a condition most favourable to...

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...