The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.
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The discovery that the child has a mind able to absorb on its own account produces a revolution in education. We can now understand easily why the...
How can we be the judge of what will interest the little child? We must put ourselves at his disposal. All past ideas are thus reversed, and the...
Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and therefore the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to...
He has also acquired in a natural way many practical skills. His body is attuned to musical rhythms, and he is ready for gymnastic exercises. Music is...
We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.
There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from...
Obviously, the child must grow and establish certain functions as yet not fixed: e.g. in the first years the function of language, the organisation...