It is on this principle of the development of the child through handling interesting objects that I have built up my method of education.

Summing up, we may say that the two mechanical factors of writing are resolved into two independent exercises, that is, drawing, which gives the hand...

I realised that the necessary movement of the hand for sewing had been prepared without sewing, and that before teaching it is first necessary to find...

Now the hand can be prepared directly to trace the signs of the alphabet by the help of the tactile and muscular senses, not by that of sight. We have...

A three-year-old educated according to Montessori pedagogy, becomes a master of his hand and undertakes with a joy a variety of human activities...

Man builds himself through working. Nothing can take the place of work, neither physical well-being nor affection, and, on the other hand, deviations...

Among the revelations the child has brought us, there is one of fundamental importance, the phenomenon of normalisation through work. Thousands and...

But when through exceptional circumstances work is the result of an inner, instinctive impulse, then even in the adult it assumes a wholly different...

Writing is a complex act which needs to be analysed. One part of it has reference to motor mechanisms and the other represents a real and proper...

Touching the letters as if they were being written initiates the muscular training that prepares for writing.