The most favourable age for the development of written language is that of childhood, about the age of four, when the natural processes connected with...

A teacher said a word rapidly in passing, and on return saw it had been written with moveable letters. For these mites of four, once was enough...

In the mysterious period which follows immediately after birth, the child -who is a psychic entity endowed with a specially refined form of...

Not only does he create his language, but he shapes the organs that enable him to frame the words. He has to make the physical basis of every moment...

If writing serves to correct, or rather, to direct and perfect the mechanism of speech in the child, reading assists in the development of ideas and...

...if men had only used speech to communicate their thought, if their wisdom had been expressed in words alone, no traces would remain of past...

A necessary condition for writing is to have what is called a "firm hand," that is, a hand under the control of the will.

Children are interested in books when they know how to read. This is so obvious that it seems superfluous to say so.

The written language concerns self-expression. It is a very simple mechanism to be introduced into the personality. It can be analysed part by part...

At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.