In giving freedom and independence to the child, we free a worker who is impelled to act and who cannot live except by his activity, because this is...
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...by offering the child the story of the universe, we give him something a thousand times more infinite and mysterious to reconstruct with his...
If education were to continue along the old lines of mere transmission of knowledge, the problem would be insoluble and there would be no hope for the...
The school must permit the free, natural manifestations of the child if in the school scientific pedagogy is to be born. This is the essential reform.
So we must have interest first and then work with an intelligent purpose, work which is freely chosen by the individual.
It is extremely difficult to reform an adult; childhood is the time for reformation and, for this reason, it is so important. Man is formed at this...
...that is, the teacher must learn, not to teach, but rather to observe. This fact not only constitutes a revolution in the form of the school, but is...
The educator must be as one inspired by a deep worship of life, and must, through this reverence, respect, while he observes with human interest, the...
To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.