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...

The objects that are used for practical life ...are objects used where a child lives and which he sees employed in his own home, but they are...

This strength of imagination in the child under six is usually expended on toys and fairy tales, but surely we can give him real things to imagine...

The child's development follows a path of successive stages of independence, and our knowledge of this must guide us in our behaviour towards him. We...