Everytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it himself.

Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.

How can we, with our adult minds, know what will be interesting? If you follow the child...you can find out something new...

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves.

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists

Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration

Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.