The child’s type of mind is an absorbing mind; it absorbs whatever is around it. An adult’s mind elaborates. We call the child’s mind the absorbent...
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Contrasts attract attention. This is why when we present the materials, we start with the extremes. Once the attention is focused and the interest...
Cylinders give an impression of shape. Bodies can differ in three dimensions. If two dimensions are alike in a series of objects, the dimension which...
Holding the knob of the cylinders with the first two fingers and thumb is a preparation of the coordination of the hand for writing. At a later age...
When the child realises that there are different kinds of words, some indicating objects while others have a different meaning, he seems to have an...
If one sense is isolated, it seems to be enhanced in its power of perception. The possibility of perception is more profound. It is the concentration...
It is so helpful to a child when we try to understand his efforts. The child truly suffers when he cannot make himself understood and this suffering...
The mathematical mind is a mind which is especially interested in mathematics. Instead of finding mathematics idiotic and absurd, it finds them...
The child must be born without any language at all so that he can take in the language of his environment. This is the work of the first two years of...