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30 March 2022

It is interesting to notice that where life is simple and natural and where the children participate in the adult’s life, they are calm and happy.

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26 June 2021

Our schools are like a furnished house, a ‘children’s house’. And what do the children do? It is what one does in one’s own house. They carry out...

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24 May 2021

Among the school material small children enjoy most are the frames with two pieces of cloth – some have buttons and buttonholes, others ribbons...

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23 May 2021

We do not teach the children these things [practical life activities] to make little servants of them, but because we have observed that of their own...

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22 May 2021

The children love to do these things [practical life activities] for themselves and they learn to be careful and precise in their movements. This...

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10 January 2021

The child who is handling specially designed materials at school, the child at home who is allowed to dress himself, help lay the table, in fact carry...

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16 September 2020

The light and easily moved tables, chairs, and armchairs permit a child to choose the most convenient position. He can make himself comfortable rather...

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30 August 2020

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...

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9 August 2020

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

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5 August 2020

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

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