We might say that the younger children take in things sensorially. The child of seven enters the abstract field, he wishes to know reasons. It is...

In a school we were carrying out experiments in biology; there was an aquarium that was accessible to children from three to nine years. One morning...

Children like to learn all the courtesies of social life. If one teaches them, they are interested to know how to greet, how to excuse themselves when...

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...

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 our schools we allow the children to use their spontaneous activity by offering them objects which call for movements appropriate to their stage...

Because the teacher respects each child and refrains from interference, the children treat one another with the same respect and kindness.

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...