If children are allowed to do what they see done in the environment, they will perform a series of exercises which have no external purpose, but...

At two years of age, we notice a sudden explosion into words; this explosion comes from the hidden work of the child. There has been a hidden...

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...

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...

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...

To make the hearing of music an intelligent act and not like the mechanical process, which appears when children read, in loud monotone, books which...

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...