The beautiful butterfly will not emerge if the caterpillar has not lived his life, hidden himself, eaten, and done all this work, unconscious of what...

To be able to construct a language in oneself requires more than the power of mimicry. Every man has a mother tongue. Of all languages he can only...

The child is like a newborn animal, because he cannot behave like the men around him. In the first two years the child’s behavior is like that of the...

The child’s mind is completely different from ours: his mind possesses the magnificent and almost miraculous faculty of taking from the environment...

The child has been the constructor of every one of us. Before we became an important adult, a respected person, a person who takes his part in...

If the child is allowed to use his spontaneous activity in a tranquil environment without interference or unasked for help, he is indeed engaged in a...

Now consider for a moment the work of a small child. His work is to create the man he will be. But he is not conscious of this end, he is conscious...

The child who is handling specially designed materials at school, the child at home who is allowed to dress himself, help lay the table, in fact carry...

... the environment is fundamental; it must facilitate the expansion of the being in process of development by a reduction of obstacles to a minimum...

Here is the aim of the truly new education; first of all to discover the child and effect his liberation.