Certainly it is a new task that confronts us, to study and take into account the needs of this absorbent mind. It is to respond to these needs that...
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All over the world children achieve the same things at the same age. They begin to walk at the same time, begin to utter syllables at the same time.
Every detail of a child’s life has rules, mysterious laws. Every detail is of importance, so we must respect everything, even if it does not seem...
So there are two plans: one is to disseminate knowledge, to follow a syllabus. The other is to look to the life of man and serve it, and in serving...
The child is like a genius who is compelled to do a great work; he has to form a language. This is a great thing which he has to construct.
These three periods, from birth to six, from six to twelve, and from twelve to eighteen, are clearly distinguishable from one another, in terms of...
If education is to be based on what we know of little children, we must first understand their development.
By the time a child is three months old, he is already looking with great interest at the mouth of anyone who is speaking. He is interested, because...