We call it material for the development of the senses, but sense development is merely the consequence of the urge to do something with the hands. The...

Actually, a child has only a sensible appreciation of these proportions, but his mind is trained on the basic data that prepares the way for...

Just as in the case of the solid insets, the control of error over such exercises [geometry cabinet] is absolute. A particular figure cannot be put...

A child at this time is ready to rediscover his own environment and the inner wealth of impressions which he has of it. To satisfy this need he should...

One can test a child's memory for colours by having him look at one colour and then advising him to go and choose a similar colour from a distant...

Any object that we wish to use for the education of the senses must necessarily present many different qualities such as weight, texture, colour, form...

The training and sharpening of the senses has the obvious advantage of enlarging the field of perception and of offering an ever more solid foundation...

The sensory education which prepares for the accurate perception of all the differential details in the qualities of things, is therefore the...

The reactions of children to various objects, the way in which, and the frequency with which, they used them, and the advantages which they derived...

...action is connected with sight, for we need to see where we are setting our feet, and when our hands are at work we need to see what they are doing...