Today there is great interest in the beginning of human life and its relation to the environment. The mysterious and effective potentialities of this...

It is so helpful to a child when we try to understand his efforts. The child truly suffers when he cannot make himself understood and this suffering...

This explosion [of language] occurs all at once. Psychologists have counted one to three hundred new words in a week. The child becomes richer from...

We must speak clearly to the child, give him the right words and repeat them often for him. In this way we can stimulate the explosion into language...

The newborn child shows a sudden, energetic, marvelous development in the first period; after that, his development is less impressive. The greatest...

From three to six years, children have a real ‘sense hunger’, they love to touch things, to fit different shapes together, to grade colours and...

We say this to the teachers in training who enter the Children’s House. ‘Stand by, remain silent, and do not speak a word to the children, do not...

A three-year-old educated according to Montessori pedagogy, becomes a master of his hand and undertakes with a joy a variety of human activities...

Education, therefore, of little ones is important, especially from three to six years of age, because this is the embryonic period for the formation...

When we speak about great social questions and the reform of humanity, we must remember this reality: this [age of about two to three years] is the...