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...

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...

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

We thus began to communicate with each other through written language; and this proved to be most interesting to the children. They gradually...

The composition of words caused some real surprises. Children showed a great interest in the spoken language which they already possessed and sought...

When a child who can write is confronted with a word which he has to read and interpret, he is silent for some time and usually reads the component...

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...

It was about six months later that they began to understand what reading meant, and they did so only through associating it with writing. Their eyes...