Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a pa ...

I keep pointing at the child; they keep staring at my finger.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without t ...

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie ...

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.