Driven by this inner sensibility children absorb language from their environment and miraculously develop it. This sensibility is so great during...

Writing does not come naturally, whereas spoken language does, and children have a need to develop their language. So the central interest came from...

These sensitive periods are of great importance and education must facilitate this opportunity which is inherent in the child. Education must prepare...

It was not simply a single child but rather many who showed this same surprising ability. They obviously had a special sensitivity for words and were...

Later on the children themselves will tend to become careless in the exact performance of their movements. Their interest in developing the...

There can be no doubt of the fact that a child absorbs an enormous number of impressions from his environment and that external help given to this...

A teacher must busy herself with finding more and more new names to satisfy the insatiable demands of her young charges. This craving which is...

[A] child of four is still in a formative period of language. He is living in a sensitive period of his own psychic development. All the marvellous...

Our experience with children in elementary schools has shown us that the age between six and twelve years is a period of life during which the...

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