I have observed for myself the exuberance, the generosity with which the nature of the child responds to scientific education. This observation left...
Our experience with children in elementary schools has shown us that the age between six and twelve years is a period of life during which the...
Let us suppose, instead, that through long and patient exercises we have already trained our teachers in the observation of nature, and that we have...
...that is, the teacher must learn, not to teach, but rather to observe. This fact not only constitutes a revolution in the form of the school, but is...
If education were to continue along the old lines of mere transmission of knowledge, the problem would be insoluble and there would be no hope for the...
A teacher is destined by his own special work to observe not simply insects or protozoa but man. And the man he is destined to observe is not one busy...
The object of a science of education should be not only to “observe” but also to “transform” children.
We must create in the soul of the teacher a general interest in the manifestation of natural phenomena until he comes to the point where he loves and...