The first Right of Man, the Fundamental Right, should recognise the right of the child to be helped to overcome those obstacles which may hinder...

We can sum this up in two sentences; the first actually said by a child to his teacher: ‘Help me to do it by myself’. The other is one we gave:...

The urge towards growth lies within the child himself – his intelligence and character will grow whatever we may do, but we can help or hinder the...

We do not know this spontaneous being: the child who tries to work constantly. If we did not recognise him as such before, it was because we put...

This means that it is not enough to set the child among objects in proportion to his size and strength; the adult who is to help him must have learned...

If the adult, through a fatal misunderstanding, instead of helping the child to do things for himself, substitutes himself for the child, then that...

This means that it is not enough to set the child among objects in proportion to his size and strength; the adult who is to help him must have learned...

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child.

Man has abandoned the natural path of life for the fatal way of civilisation...The child is entirely in the care of the adults, and they, unless...

The discovery that the child has a mind able to absorb on its own account produces a revolution in education. We can now understand easily why the...