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The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.
The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.
Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.
Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.
The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society.
When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing
Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.
To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover.
Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.
The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives.
The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.
Order is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it.
We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.
Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.
The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.
Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.
The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.
The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.
A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.
Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.
The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.
Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.
The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.
The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality.
Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.
Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness
Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.
This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.
The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something
A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.
A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done
Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.
Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.
A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.
Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.
The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.
There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.
It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.