"He who is served is limited in his independence"

"The child is an enigma. He has the highest potentialities but we do not know what he will be"

"Education is a natural process carried out by the child not acquired by listening to words but by experiences in the environment."

"No adult can bear a child's burden or grow up in his stead"

"How often is the soul of man, especially that of the child, deprived because one does not put him in contact with nature"

"To let a child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom"