"Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life." This is the greatest responsibility for the adult who educates the child...
There is a part of a child's soul that has always been unknown but which must be known. With a spirit of sacrifice and enthusiasm we must go in search...
If teaching is to be effective with young children, it must assist them to advance on the way to independence.
The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.
We habitually serve children; and this is not only an act of servility toward them, but it is dangerous, since it tends to suffocate their useful...
The adult ought never to mould the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself...
Man has abandoned the natural path of life for the fatal way of civilisation...The child is entirely in the care of the adults, and they, unless...
We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.
We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little as possible to exhaust the...
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