The Educator Must Above All Understand How

At Every Step The Child Should Be Allowed To Meet The Real Experience Of Life; The Thorns Should Never Be Plucked From His Roses.

Anyone Who Would Attempt The Task Of Felling A Virgin Forest With A Penknife Would Probably Feel The Same Paralysis Of Despair That The Reformer Feels When Confronted With Existing School Systems.

Not Observation Of A Duty But Liberty Itself Is The Pledge That Assures Fidelity.

For Success In Training Children The First Condition Is To Become As A Child Oneself, But This Means No Assumed Childishness, No Condescending Baby-talk That The Child Immediately Sees Through And Deeply Abhors. What It Does Mean Is To Be As Entirely And Simply Taken Up With The Child As The Child Himself Is Absorbed By His Life.

A Great Poet Has Seldom Sung Of Lawfully Wedded Happiness, But Of Free And Secret Love; And In This Respect, Too The Time Is Coming When There Will No Longer Be One Standard Of Morality For Poetry And Another For Life. To Anyone Tender Of Conscience, The Ties Formed By A Free Connection Are Stronger Than The Legal Ones.