Here then is the essential principle of education: to teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring...

...the great hope for education is to help the little young humanity which is in our hands.

If "the formation of man" becomes the basis of education, then the coordination of all schools from infancy to maturity, from nursery to university...

Education should not limit itself to seeking new methods for a mostly arid transmission of knowledge: its aim must be to give the necessary aid to...

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

The educator must be as one inspired by a deep worship of life, and must, through this reverence, respect, while he observes with human interest, the...

...that is, the teacher must learn, not to teach, but rather to observe. This fact not only constitutes a revolution in the form of the school, but is...

The school must permit the free, natural manifestations of the child if in the school scientific pedagogy is to be born. This is the essential reform.

If education were to continue along the old lines of mere transmission of knowledge, the problem would be insoluble and there would be no hope for the...

...it is the psychology of the child, the life of his soul, that has gradually dictated what might be called a pedagogy and a method of education. If...