Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms....

The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the outside world and to absorb it.... By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own...

It is a mental chemistry that takes place in the child, producing a chemical transformation. These impressions not only penetrate the mind of the...

...the tiny child's absorbent mind finds all its nutriment in its surroundings. Here it has to locate itself, and build itself up from what it takes...

Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods with their respective mechanisms. It...

It begins with a knowledge of his surroundings. How does the child assimilate his environment? He does it solely in virtue of one of those...

It may be said that that we acquire knowledge by using our minds; but the child absorbs knowledge directly into his psychic life.

...at birth all children are alike, and need the same treatment or education during the stage of embryonic growth, of mental incarnation.

Psychically speaking, at birth there is nothing at all—zero! Indeed, not only psychically, for at birth the child is almost paralytic... These great...

The infant in arms has far greater mental energies than are usually imagined.