Growing is a succession of acquisitions of independence. At first they are physical acquisitions – teeth, walking, language – each comes at the right...

The child who has never learned to act alone, to direct his own actions, to govern his own will, grows into an adult who is easily led and must...

We can sum this up in two sentences; the first actually said by a child to his teacher: ‘Help me to do it by myself’. The other is one we gave:...

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...

Liberty is not to be free to do anything one likes; it is to be able to act without help.

The child realises that through his own efforts he can be independent and achieve things he has set his mind to. And gradually we educators are...

It is to correspond to these needs [for independence] that we prepared an environment proportionate to the size and intelligence of the children...

In our schools we give the children small chairs and tables, so that they may move as masters in their own world instead of wrestling continually...

In a child’s surroundings there are always two factors, the human as well as the material one. And it is in the human factor that children with...

Have you ever seen a child, flushed with the new accomplishment of putting on his socks and shoes, dеliberately take them off in order to go through...