Whenever possible, the child has a tendency to render himself independent of the help of others, especially of the adult. Then, in acquiring this...
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The adult must not interfere, must not act instead of the child. Give him the means and let him act: his freedom consists of this.
When the child has acquired this independence his relation to the adult is changed. He is sweeter and calmer. He no longer lives under a repression...
On every teacher and every parent, I urge not great instruction, but humility and simplicity in dealing with small children. Their lives are fresh...
Harmonious relation between adult and child does not depend only on their loving each other. Rather, mutual understanding and love depend on whether...
We give the child nourishing food so that his little body may grow, and in just the same way we must provide him with suitable nourishment for his...
When the children find themselves in the environment we have prepared, the social contact with other children begins. [...] One might imagine that...
The teacher shows the child how to use the materials, how to wash himself, but it is the child who handles the material, perfects himself in his...
Perhaps the failure of the secondary school is due to the fact that it uses methods of assimilation that are no longer suited to the development of...