...to give the whole of modern culture has become an impossibility and so a need arises for a special method, whereby all factors of culture may be...
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Now what is it that strikes the imagination? Above all, grandeur and, next, mystery. The imagination is then able to reconstruct the whole when it...
...it is the psychology of the child, the life of his soul, that has gradually dictated what might be called a pedagogy and a method of education. If...
A child, who more than anyone else is a spontaneous observer of nature, certainly needs to have at his disposal material upon which he can work.
One single idea runs through every complex activity, and this single idea must be sought as the key to any general problem. There is also a secret key...
The new-born child does not come into a natural environment, but into the civilised environment of the life of men. It is a “supranatural” environment...
To the young child we give guides to the world and the possibility to explore it through his own free activity; to the older child we must give not...
The children must be attached to the material; if they are attached to the teacher they cannot be independent.
This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in a common aim, attracting...