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.

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...