The teacher shows the child how to use the materials, how to wash himself, but it is the child who handles the material, perfects himself in his...

Children develop their brains as well as their bodies through movement, and in the process of concentration, self-discipline, and perseverance with an...

When a child is tirelessly trying to make patterns with his blocks simply because he is interested, there is no need for outside discipline, the child...

These children are not to be treated as in other schools, where we begin by examining how they are taught, whether they understand, and if they are...

The teacher's happy task is to show them the path to perfection, furnishing the means and removing the obstacles, beginning with those which she...

All work is noble, the only ignoble thing is to live without working.

Let us always remember that inner discipline is something to come, and not something already present. Our task is to show the way to discipline...

Education should... include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience...

Being active with one's own hands, having a determined practical aim to reach, is what really gives inner discipline. When the hand perfects itself in...

The first idea that a child must acquire on order to be actively disciplined is the difference between right and wrong; and it is the duty of the...