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...

It is thanks to the hand, the companion of the mind, that civilization has arisen.

...all the changes in man’s environment are brought about by his hands.

A necessary condition for writing is to have what is called a "firm hand," that is, a hand under the control of the will.

The hand too, therefore, needs its own preparation. What is needed before one actually writes is to learn writing by means of a series of interesting...

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.