Conductive Education is a learning process:
Conductive Education approaches physical disabilities from an educational rather than a medical or paramedical perspective. People who have motor disorders have a problem of learning, which requires education as opposed to a medical condition, which requires treatment.

Conductive Education offers a holistic, integrated approach to special education:
Conductive Education provides a holistic approach to educating people with motor disorders. The nature of real-life is that at any one time a wide range of skills are being used and developed. We are never doing just one thing; every task involves many elements but for a motor-disabled person these are often very difficult to organise and co-ordinate. This is why Conductive Education pays attention to all areas of development, all aspects of the personality in an integrated manner. It seeks to teach people to address each area without forgetting the others, and learn to co-ordinate them effectively.

Active participation is the key for development:
In Conductive Education individuals are encouraged to engage in the world around them and actively participate as this is the only way, learning will take place. To achieve active participation, Conductive Education provides the motor disabled person with a wide range of "life-like" but at the same time, achievable activities.

Conductive Education seeks to change the person, not the environment:
Although some adaptation of equipment is used in Conductive Education, the aim is that eventually the motor disordered person will learn ways of accessing their environment rather than the environment needing to be adapted to cater for their needs.

Functional activities provide the tools for learning and teaching:
The activities used and situations created in CE will be the same or very similar to those of able-bodied individuals. It is the conductors' duty to select these activities carefully, taking the participants' age, developmental level, abilities, needs and personal characteristics into account to ensure that success is achievable. Success and enjoyment in these activities will give participants the desire and motivation to participate even more. Eventually the motor disabled person will be able to determine their own goals and possess the motivation to reach them. This is the stage where learning and development will be maximised and participants will reach their full potential.