Children are so responsive that if you treat your child with kindness and consideration he too will be kind. If you let him pursue his own little...

A child does not know why he is interested in a particular object or movement at a particular moment – the important thing is that he is interested...

The child does not grow weary with work, but increases his strength. He grows through work and that is why work increases his energies. He never asks...

We must not help the child to walk, and if his hands wants to work, we must give him motives of activity, and leave him to proceed to ever greater...

The importance of the work does not bother children, they are satisfied when they have done as much as they can and see that they are not excluded...

When children experience pleasure not only from an activity leading towards a special goal but also in carrying it out exactly in all its details...

How does he achieve this independence? He does it by means of a continuous activity. How does he become free? By means of constant effort. ...we know...

An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and...

The essential thing is for the task to arouse such an interest that it engages the child's whole personality.

How can we be the judge of what will interest the little child? We must put ourselves at his disposal. All past ideas are thus reversed, and the...