If children are allowed to do what they see done in the environment, they will perform a series of exercises which have no external purpose, but...
Our schools are like a furnished house, a ‘children’s house’. And what do the children do? It is what one does in one’s own house. They carry out...
A child’s work is based on doing things for their own sake. There is an end towards which his work is taking him: through his work he is building the...
Grown-ups think of play as a purposeless occupation that keeps children happy and out of mischief, but actually when children are left to play by...
You will be surprised when I tell you that the greater part of what you call ‘play’ is really work.
The mind takes some time to develop interest, to be set in motion, to get warmed up into a subject, to attain a state of profitable work. If at this...
Productive work and a wage that gives economic independence, or rather constitutes a first real attempt to achieve economic independence, could be...
The children find joy, satisfaction and exhilaration in work. More work seems to produce more restfulness. After much energy has been spent in doing...
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