The child must construct his adaptation to his environment from the beginning of his life. This adaptation is developed by the child taking in...

We must, for this reason, take great care in this early period when nothing shows in the external life. If anything is lacking in these first two...

The newborn child can do nothing alone. He has to be carried into the environment. If he is left alone, he cannot develop, but if he is brought into...

The child’s type of mind is an absorbing mind; it absorbs whatever is around it. An adult’s mind elaborates. We call the child’s mind the absorbent...

Certainly it is a new task that confronts us, to study and take into account the needs of this absorbent mind. It is to respond to these needs that...

If you consider this absorbent mind in relation to language, you will understand how necessary it is to put a small child among people who speak well...

A marvellous fact is that this absorbent mind never feels fatigue. It is just like a camera: it clicks, and everything is there all of a sudden.

The only thing the absorbent mind needs is the life of the individual; give him life and an environment and he will absorb all that is in it. But, of...

Let us keep before us this image of the child who absorbs everything in the environment, and who, in his mysterious subconscious, fixes it in his...

There are different periods in life when we can acquire different abilities. Little children can do things that older ones are no longer capable of...