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.

Thus we would use a kind of gymnastics to prepare the mechanisms of the hand. This preparation can be compared, in view of its goal, to the other...

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

Being active with one's own hands, having a determined practical aim to reach, is what really gives inner discipline. When the hand perfects itself in...

It is obvious that man is born to work both with his hands and with his mind. This makes man the creator unique, and his hands and his mind must do...