Clearly, we have a social duty towards this future man, this man who exists as a silhouette around the child, a duty towards this man of tomorrow...
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I call a child of three years a man because I see his merits instead of his size. He has acquired a great degree of independence and can do many...
The child that has to adapt himself to the environment can only adapt to it by copying others. If children did not copy, each man would start a new...
Imitation is the tool given by nature to children to help them adapt to the particular place where they were born and that enables them to adapt to...
Children have a kind of instinct, a special sensibility, which urges them to acquire new words. Between three and five years especially, the child’s...
A child can only acquire the words he hears spoken around him. This is not teaching but absorption. The child is, by nature, hungry for words; he...
The child’s sensibility to absorb language is so great that he can acquire foreign languages at this age [birth to three].
Children have an absorbent mind. They absorb knowledge from the environment without fatigue. [...] This is the moment in the life of man when we can...
It is interesting to notice that where life is simple and natural and where the children participate in the adult’s life, they are calm and happy.