We, adults, are often not as inclined to help a small child as an older child, perhaps one who is four years old, who is full of love, help, and...

It is a mind endowed with special psychic powers, which we lose later, because whatever we adults want to acquire we have to acquire with effort and...

This head is not ossified at birth; it is very incomplete, so incomplete that the ossification of the cranium is only complete after six years. This...

There is an age when children play; we call it the age of play. But what is play if not to do those things which entail the movement of the hands...

The child has infinite possibilities which were not known before. Little children have lived in the world for thousands and thousands of years and no...

The child has the capacity to educate himself, not in typical schools with their exact syllabuses where children must be obedient, but at a school...

’But,’ I can hear you say, ‘shall we leave our children to do as they like? How can they know what is best for them when they have had no experience...

It is verily upon the perfect and tranquil spiritual life of the child that depends the health or sickness of the soul, the strength or weakness of...

During this period of growth [childhood] the child learns spontaneously, without tiring; he observes the things around him (one might even say he...

A child’s needs are simple, and a happy childhood needs only simple surroundings.