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...

It is easy to find the identities with the colour tablets, because the colours contrast so vividly. This is a path which we throw open – very easy...

We have sounds of the bells. We try in the case of each sound to find itsequal. This we call pairing. I might do an exercise by mixing them all upand...

Actually, a child has only a sensible appreciation of these proportions, but his mind is trained on the basic data that prepares the way for...

Just as in the case of the solid insets, the control of error over such exercises [geometry cabinet] is absolute. A particular figure cannot be put...

There can be no doubt of the fact that a child absorbs an enormous number of impressions from his environment and that external help given to this...

A teacher must busy herself with finding more and more new names to satisfy the insatiable demands of her young charges. This craving which is...

A child at this time is ready to rediscover his own environment and the inner wealth of impressions which he has of it. To satisfy this need he should...

One can test a child's memory for colours by having him look at one colour and then advising him to go and choose a similar colour from a distant...

Any object that we wish to use for the education of the senses must necessarily present many different qualities such as weight, texture, colour, form...