When the children find themselves in the environment we have prepared, the social contact with other children begins. [...] One might imagine that...

If the different individuals have to live harmoniously in one society, with a common aim there must be a set of rules which we call morality...

If a child meets certain difficulties in his work the other children never spontaneously help him.... But if there is an accident when help is really...

If we wish to make the effort of unifying human society, we must acknowledge the individual and consider the human being as such from birth.

At each age one must seek for the opportunity for the greatest effort, and the greatest social experience one can reach actively.

When we speak of “environment” we include the sum total of objects which a child can freely choose and use as he pleases, that is to say, according to...

Through practical exercises...the children develop a true “social feeling,” for they are working in the environment of the community in which they...

Children as a rule have different desires at any particular moment, and one keeps busy at one thing and another at another without quarrelling. In...

Order and discipline must be aimed at the attainment of human harmony, and any act that hinders the establishment of a genuine community of all...

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...