Once the child can speak, he can express himself and no longer depends on others to guess his needs. He finds himself in touch with human society, for...

The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the outside world and to absorb it.... By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own...

..the first educational influence upon a child should have as its object the guidance of the child along the way of independence.

No one can be free if he is not independent, therefore, in order to attain this independence, the active manifestations of personal liberty must be...

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...

An inner change has taken place, but nature is quite logical in arousing now in the child not only a hunger for knowledge and understanding, but a...

Independence, in the case of the adolescents, has to be acquired on a different plane, for theirs is the economic independence in the field of society...

...the child’s nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

We must help them to learn how to walk without assistance, to run, to go up and down stairs, to pick up fallen objects, to dress and undress, to wash...

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