When they arrive in the morning, there are many things to attend to. The children look after the classroom. They sweep with their own small brooms and...

As the child learns to handle the materials carefully his delight grows, and eventually he can be trusted to dust the cupboard with the fragile...

Repetition is the secret to perfection, and this is why the exercises are connected with the common activities of daily life. If a child does not set...

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...

Work for a child must possess some variety within itself. A child does not have to know the reasons for sowing or reaping to have his interest aroused...

The most pleasant work for children is not sowing but reaping, a work, we all know, that is no less exacting then the former. It may even be said that...

A child, who more than anyone else is a spontaneous observer of nature, certainly needs to have at his disposal material upon which he can work.

Children indeed love flowers, but they need to do something more than remain among them and contemplate their coloured blossoms. They find their...