The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form part of...

There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing...

He learns everything without knowing he is learning it, and in doing so he passes little by little from the unconscious to the conscious, treading...

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...