Naughtiness will disappear if we give children the right environment at a sufficiently early age. This environment must provide a great deal of...

If we give children the right environment and this warm care [of the adult], we will see all their naughtiness disappear without any advice or the...

If we correct a child we must do so very gently. We must be his interpreter; this must be our first act of charity to the human being.

Every detail of a child’s life has rules, mysterious laws. Every detail is of importance, so we must respect everything, even if it does not seem...

This is our responsibility, not to spoil the great laws of nature and the effort which is in each child. The teacher must be the servant of nature...

We need to change our attitude and see the greatness of the child’s achievements rather than the small and dry leaves of his errors (errors we have...

The schoolchild, being continually discouraged and scolded, ends by acquiring that mixture of distrust of his own powers and of fear which is called...

Nature has given to this new person its laws, and all that takes place is not in our hands. Not that we cannot help; we can and do, but we had the...

We cannot with our efforts, create a man. That is the task of the child himself, and it is the most important side of the whole educational question...

The child realises that through his own efforts he can be independent and achieve things he has set his mind to. And gradually we educators are...