We had a little goat [...] I was feeding him and holding the grass always higher, in order to see how high he could stretch before I gave him the...
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As the child learns to handle the materials carefully his delight grows, and eventually he can be trusted to dust the cupboard with the fragile...
We can see clearly what is necessary to give in order to help the child. It is to give the possibility of independence, of living together and...
Children of three or four will concentrate for an hour at a time without effort, and we are careful not to destroy this new power by the arbitrary...
... the child always chooses something hard to do. This is something we would never have thought of.
When the child is finished [working] he is eager to share his joy, to help the little ones, and because the others have respected his work he never...
So we realise that in order to develop the individual needs to display effort, to exercise himself and not be dependent on others. Now this...
There is no punishment or reward in our schools to interfere with the joy in the work itself. The only reward is in the completion of the work – it is...
It is the ‘valorisation’ of the personality, to become aware of ones own value. Without this, as many psychologists say, the child only feels his own...