The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play.

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.