A refined and perfect child is capable of entering upon any path that helps him to advance.

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...

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...

We must not therefore start from any fixed ideas about child psychology but with a programme that will give a child his freedom so that we can deduce...

If a system of education is to rise from a study of the individual student, it will have to come about in this way, that is, from the observations of...

So the logic of natural development is seen: first the child prepares his instruments, hands and feet, then he gets strength by exercise, and next...

The strength of even the smallest children is more than we imagine, but it must have a free play in order to reveal itself.

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 environment is fundamental, it must facilitate the expansion of the being in process of development by a reduction of obstacles to a minimum...

...an individual is disciplined when he is the master of himself and when he can, as a consequence, control himself when he must follow a rule of life...