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...

Whilst moving the objects used in our sensory exercises, the children's hands are being prepared for all the actions necessary for writing.

In the period of early childhood they are urged by nature itself to co-ordinate the movements of the hands, as is seen in their urge to touch...

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

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...

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...

Written language can be acquired much more easily by children of four years than by those of six years of age.