The child gives us a beautiful lesson – that in order to form and maintain our intelligence, we must use our hands.

It is not that man must develop in order to work, but that man must work in order to develop. The work of the hand is the expression of psychic growth...

The hands help the development of the intellect. When a child is capable of using his hands, he can have a quantity of experiences in the environment...

Then leave the child to repeat the exercise twenty or thirty times. I have heard that, in some cases, children may even repeat it two hundred times...

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...

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...

Movement of the hand is essential. Little children revealed that the development of the mind is stimulated by the movement of the hands. The hand is...

If we study the psychology of children aged between three and six, we see that movement, and especially the movement of the hand, plays a most...

Today children are given toys; that at least is something. Even if they are not fundamentally the right things, at least they fulfil the need for...

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