Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.

The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.

The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.