We grown-ups are inclined to think that no one really works but ourselves. It is we who earn a living, it is we who have built us the civilization we...

We say that we correct them for their own good, and a great deal of the time we honestly believe it. But it is strange how often what we feel to...

This young life that we are trying to mould needs no forcing and squeezing, no correcting or faultfinding to develop its intelligence and character...

We had a little goat [...] I was feeding him and holding the grass always higher, in order to see how high he could stretch before I gave him the...

On every teacher and every parent, I urge not great instruction, but humility and simplicity in dealing with small children. Their lives are fresh...

The great benefit we can bestow on childhood is the exercise of restraint in ourselves.

You may say that you know how to respect the child, and that perhaps is true but in a moral and theoretical way. I mean it literally: children must...

I feel that it is a difficult path that we are following, and we must seek out someone who can teach us something more practical. This ‘someone’ who...

Nature has this beautiful arrangement in which everybody, while striving for his own life and happiness, does something for the improvement and...

Here we are mistaken. We treat these children as objects, ordering them about, placing them here and there, and forcing them to fit into our world...