That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendour during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of...

The child does not grow weary with work, but increases his strength. He grows through work and that is why work increases his energies. He never asks...

In all diseases, physical as well as mental, the importance of events that have occurred in infancy is now recognised.

But the study of the child, not in his physical but in his psychological aspect, may have an infinitely wider influence, extending to all human...

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 concept of an education centred upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable...

During this early period, education must be understood as a help to the unfolding of the child's inborn psychic powers. This means that we cannot use...

Education should no longer be mostly imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.

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...

Education demands, then, only this: the utilisation of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.