In school the teacher stands by, she does not correct or interfere with the child’s work. When something goes wrong she waits to be asked for help...
In this school everything has its place and is kept there, because I have observed over and over again that children have a feeling for orderliness...
In the old way the teacher made the children learn the multiplication tables by heart and then taught them to do the sums. Today children handle rods...
We do not teach the children these things [practical life activities] to make little servants of them, but because we have observed that of their own...
When they arrive in the morning, there are many things to attend to. The children look after the classroom. They sweep with their own small brooms and...
We call our schools Children’s Houses, and in them the children are masters of the house. When we have visitors we do not allow them to behave as...
I have said enough if I have persuaded you to undertake for yourself the interesting experiment of a visit to one of our schools to watch the happy...
From three to six years, children have a real ‘sense hunger’, they love to touch things, to fit different shapes together, to grade colours and...
We say this to the teachers in training who enter the Children’s House. ‘Stand by, remain silent, and do not speak a word to the children, do not...
Pagination
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