The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction.
Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover.
The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential
It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.
Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment.
We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.
The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.
To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.