The art of education must become a service to these powers inherent in all children. It must be a help to life.

These sensitive periods are of great importance and education must facilitate this opportunity which is inherent in the child. Education must prepare...

To understand the needs of the child and to supply these so that his life develops fully, that is the aim underlying my method.

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...

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...

But, above all it is the education of adolescents that is important, because adolescence is the time when the child enters on the state of adulthood...

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

...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...

No one could have foreseen then that the child held within himself a secret of life, able to lift the veil from the mysteries of the human soul, that...