The children must be attached to the material; if they are attached to the teacher they cannot be independent.

My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of...

A man who acts by himself, who expends his strength on his own actions, conquers himself, increases his strength, and perfects himself. If men of the...

The essential reform is this: to put the adolescent on the road to achieving economic independence. We might call it a "school of experience in the...

We must help the child to liberate himself from his defects without making him feel his weakness.

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience ‘work’.

The child’s conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his ‘natural development’.

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...

At birth he frees himself from a prison, the mother's body, and achieves independence of the functions of the mother.

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...