Like others I had believed that it was necessary to encourage a child by means of some exterior reward that would flatter his baser sentiments... in...

It would seem to me that children are very well disciplined indeed when they can all move around in a room in a useful, intelligent, and free fashion...

Then when she begins to see that it is her duty to distinguish between acts which should be prevented and those which should be observed....

A child's liberty should have at its limit the interests of the group to which he belongs.... We should therefore prevent a child from doing anything...

...an adult should show himself to a child as a loving and enlightened guide assisting him.

I would not be able to cite a single example of a conversion taking place without an interesting task that concentrated the child's activities. There...

Starting from this state of order, the movements of the children daily become more perfect and coordinated. They learn to reflect upon their own...

In our system we obviously have a different concept of discipline. The discipline that we are looking for is active. We do not believe that one is...

Order and discipline must be aimed at the attainment of human harmony, and any act that hinders the establishment of a genuine community of all...

In our system we obviously have a different concept of discipline. The discipline that we are looking for is active. We do not believe that one is...