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.

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...