Holding the knob of the cylinders with the first two fingers and thumb is a preparation of the coordination of the hand for writing. At a later age...

Driven by this inner sensibility children absorb language from their environment and miraculously develop it. This sensibility is so great during...

Writing does not come naturally, whereas spoken language does, and children have a need to develop their language. So the central interest came from...

This great interest in writing came from the ideas that children wanted to express. If they had had no ideas, they would not have written. This...

Not one of them had ever before even taken chalk or any other writing instrument into his hand. This was the first time that they had written, and...

It was not simply a single child but rather many who showed this same surprising ability. They obviously had a special sensitivity for words and were...

Summing up, we may say that the two mechanical factors of writing are resolved into two independent exercises, that is, drawing, which gives the hand...

I realised that the necessary movement of the hand for sewing had been prepared without sewing, and that before teaching it is first necessary to find...

Regarding reading, it is already in a sense implied in the exercise with the movable alphabet. In a perfectly phonetic language it could be developed...

Now the hand can be prepared directly to trace the signs of the alphabet by the help of the tactile and muscular senses, not by that of sight. We have...