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...

When the children find themselves in the environment we have prepared, the social contact with other children begins. [...] One might imagine that...

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...

Especially then, when the child’s need of activity was not understood, any mother would have said: ‘Now you are clean, that is enough, stop’. But...

The children behaviour led us to become aware of a fundamental truth, namely that the child works for his own inner development and not to reach an...

I have been observing the child at work for many years and have provided for him in the school a new world for his activity. In his school...

This special type of school was christened with the charming name of Casa dei Bambini, Children's House. The first of these was opened on January 6...

The muscles should always serve the intellect and thus preserve their functional unity with the human personality. If [an adult] is an intelligent...

Nevertheless the exercises of practical life cannot be regarded as a simple kind of gymnastics; they are “work”. But the work is refreshing and not...

A child is constantly inspecting his surroundings, his “house”; and when a chair is out of place, making the room look disorderly, we can be certain...