The scientific laboratory, the field of Nature where the teacher will be initiated into ‘the observation of the phenomena of the inner life,’ should...

The human personality forms itself by itself, like the embryo, and the child becomes the creator of the man, the father of the man.

The child strives to assimilate his environment and from such efforts springs the deep-seated unity of his personality.

The vision of the teacher should be at once precise like that of the scientist, and spiritual like that of the saint. The preparation for science and...

Nature conditions the child otherwise than the young of animals. She leaves the realm of movement free from the imperious despotism of instinct...

The true educator is the man who rids himself of the inner obstacles which make the child incomprehensible to him; he is not simply the man who is...

There is thus a secret in the soul of the child, impossible to penetrate unless he himself reveals it as little by little he builds up his being.

There are harsh and insistent changes that summon the unconscious to the consciousness; all spiritual development is an achievement of consciousness...

The most pleasant work for children is not sowing but reaping, a work, we all know, that is no less exacting then the former. It may even be said that...

The new-born child does not come into a natural environment, but into the civilised environment of the life of men. It is a “supranatural” environment...