Spoken language is like a breath of air which can reach only the ear which happens to be close to it. That is why [human beings], from remotest...

Possession of the art of writing is not a mere skill, it represents the possession of a superior form of language added to its natural form. Written...

When a teacher has a child see and touch the letters of the alphabet, three sensations come into play simultaneously: sight, touch, and kinaesthetic...

Only after a child has begun to write on his own should a teacher intervene to guide his progress in writing.

Writing is a complex act which needs to be analysed. One part of it has reference to motor mechanisms and the other represents a real and proper...

Writing is not identical with the alphabet. Writing consists of a series of attempts to transmit thought in a practical and permanent way. Its history...

Touching the letters as if they were being written initiates the muscular training that prepares for writing.

Thus we would use a kind of gymnastics to prepare the mechanisms of the hand. This preparation can be compared, in view of its goal, to the other...

The exercises with the movable alphabet place the whole language in motion. They provoke a real intellectual activity...These continuous exercises...

Our experiment, begun in Rome in 1907 with children between 3 and 6 years of age, was, I believe, the first and only example of an attempt to teach...