This young life that we are trying to mould needs no forcing and squeezing, no correcting or faultfinding to develop its intelligence and character...

Our part is to give help when we are asked. If we are careful not to interfere with a child’s activities and interests as long as they are not...

The spontaneous urge towards development, which is within the child, dictates its own pace. It is the part of a wise and loving parent to stand by, to...

We can love our children so dearly that it makes us blind to what is best for them. We can desire so eagerly that they shall grow into fine men and...

It is tremendously important that we should understand the spontaneous way in which the child develops himself. We are so anxious to help, to us it...

Just as we cannot directly help the child’s body to grow into manhood, so we cannot form his mind or character for him. But we can supply his mental...

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...

During many years of experiment and observation, I discovered that children learn naturally through activity, and that their characters develop...

On every teacher and every parent, I urge not great instruction, but humility and simplicity in dealing with small children. Their lives are fresh...

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...