The new education does not consist in merely providing means for the development of individual actions, but also in giving a child the freedom of...

These children reveal to us the most vital need of their development, saying: “Help me to do it alone!”

The muscles should always serve the intellect and thus preserve their functional unity with the human personality. If [an adult] is an intelligent...

They repeated the performance again and again without having any longer an external aim in doing so. It was by an inner need that they went on washing...

Repetition is the secret to perfection, and this is why the exercises are connected with the common activities of daily life. If a child does not set...

Every external object and still more every external activity which hinders that frail and hidden impulse which, even though it is still unknown, acts...

The new education does not consist in merely providing means for the development of individual actions, but also in giving a child the freedom of...

...a child should be left free to choose the objects he wishes. The more the obstacles that stand between a child and the object to which his soul...

Everything must be taught, and everything must be connected with life; but this does not mean that the actions which children have learned to perform...

Nevertheless the exercises of practical life cannot be regarded as a simple kind of gymnastics; they are “work”. But the work is refreshing and not...