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...

There is therefore a formative period in which the actions have no external scope or application. We find analogous facts connected with the...

How he is to use what he has learned is a task for his own conscience, an exercise of his own responsibility. He is thus freed from the greatest of...

Exercises in keeping their balance and in analysing their various movements helps the children to perfect all their acts. They force a child to use...

A child is constantly inspecting his surroundings, his “house”; and when a chair is out of place, making the room look disorderly, we can be certain...