Actually, a child has only a sensible appreciation of these proportions, but his mind is trained on the basic data that prepares the way for...
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We have sounds of the bells. We try in the case of each sound to find itsequal. This we call pairing. I might do an exercise by mixing them all upand...
But the child is conscious of another kind of work which has its origin in life itself. If it were true that man need not work in order to live or man...
The apparent fatigue of the child between the first and second period of work is interesting; at that moment the aspect of the child is not calm and...
Now the hand can be prepared directly to trace the signs of the alphabet by the help of the tactile and muscular senses, not by that of sight. We have...
Regarding reading, it is already in a sense implied in the exercise with the movable alphabet. In a perfectly phonetic language it could be developed...
I realised that the necessary movement of the hand for sewing had been prepared without sewing, and that before teaching it is first necessary to find...
Summing up, we may say that the two mechanical factors of writing are resolved into two independent exercises, that is, drawing, which gives the hand...
It was not simply a single child but rather many who showed this same surprising ability. They obviously had a special sensitivity for words and were...