The child sees the same action repeated at the same time every day in the same way. This attracts his attention. Children have a sense of the...

It is not enough to see that the child gets good food, good physical care, and enough sleep, because development needs activity too. Experience in the...

The child is the builder of man. In the first year of life the child does not have the body or intelligence or character of a man. A man is a member...

It is through the activity of the child that the mind of man is created. We must consider therefore, the child – who has this power, this activity...

The teacher should clear the table of everything else before presenting any piece of apparatus. This leads to order and fixes the attention on the...

If we wish to be the interpreter of the child, we must realise that we are studying an unconscious phenomenon. Before consciousness arrives, there is...

It is through appropriate work and activities that the character of the child is transformed. Work influences his development in the same way that...

Our part is to give help when we are asked. If we are careful not to interfere with a child’s activities and interests as long as they are not...

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

From three to six years, children have a real ‘sense hunger’, they love to touch things, to fit different shapes together, to grade colours and...