Whilst moving the objects used in our sensory exercises, the children's hands are being prepared for all the actions necessary for writing.

In the period of early childhood they are urged by nature itself to co-ordinate the movements of the hands, as is seen in their urge to touch...

Spoken language is like a breath of air which can reach only the ear which happens to be close to it. That is why [human beings], from remotest...

Possession of the art of writing is not a mere skill, it represents the possession of a superior form of language added to its natural form. Written...

When a teacher has a child see and touch the letters of the alphabet, three sensations come into play simultaneously: sight, touch, and kinaesthetic...

There can be no doubt of the fact that a child absorbs an enormous number of impressions from his environment and that external help given to this...

A teacher must busy herself with finding more and more new names to satisfy the insatiable demands of her young charges. This craving which is...

Only after a child has begun to write on his own should a teacher intervene to guide his progress in writing.

[A] child of four is still in a formative period of language. He is living in a sensitive period of his own psychic development. All the marvellous...

Writing is a complex act which needs to be analysed. One part of it has reference to motor mechanisms and the other represents a real and proper...