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...

The objects that are used for practical life ...are objects used where a child lives and which he sees employed in his own home, but they are...

Through practical exercises...the children develop a true “social feeling,” for they are working in the environment of the community in which they...

A child has learned not only to keep silent, but when he should be silent. He has not only learned the various kinds of greetings, but he has also...

Every complex action comprises a series of distinct movements; one act follows the other. The analysis of movements consists in trying to recognise...