Once the child can speak, he can express himself and no longer depends on others to guess his needs. He finds himself in touch with human society, for...

...when we speak of the freedom of a small child, we do not mean to countenance the external disorderly actions which children left to themselves...

...at birth all children are alike, and need the same treatment or education during the stage of embryonic growth, of mental incarnation.

The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with it according to his own...

The freeing of a child consists in removing as far as possible these obstacles through a close and thorough study of the secret needs of early...

The child should love everything that he learns, for his mental and emotional growths are linked. Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful...

Obviously, the child must grow and establish certain functions as yet not fixed: e.g. in the first years the function of language, the organisation...

The child has his own laws of growth, and if we want to help him grow, we must follow him instead of imposing ourselves on him.