Everything must be taught, and everything must be connected with life; but this does not mean that the actions which children have learned to perform...
Nevertheless the exercises of practical life cannot be regarded as a simple kind of gymnastics; they are “work”. But the work is refreshing and not...
There is therefore a formative period in which the actions have no external scope or application. We find analogous facts connected with the...
How he is to use what he has learned is a task for his own conscience, an exercise of his own responsibility. He is thus freed from the greatest of...
...it is not imitation. This may be shown even in the way that the child uses the material: he becomes so attentive to what he is doing and so...
Through practical exercises...the children develop a true “social feeling,” for they are working in the environment of the community in which they...
A child has learned not only to keep silent, but when he should be silent. He has not only learned the various kinds of greetings, but he has also...
Education used to concern itself mainly with the separate training of Attention, or the power of reasoning in order to grasp what is taught, and Will...
If we would but think it, the carrying out of a practical life affords an abundance of exercise, and the gymnasium for perfecting one's actions is the...
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