I have seen one-year-old children putting things away when they were finished with them, a piece of work which usually goes unnoticed. This sort of...

In this school everything has its place and is kept there, because I have observed over and over again that children have a feeling for orderliness...

Gradually, we came to recognise the child’s love for order and witnessed its surprising memory of the exact position of each object.

Another thing which at the time seemed strange was the need for order which developed in the children. They put everything back in its proper place.

[T]he little child's need for order is one of the most powerful incentives to dominate his early life.

A child is constantly inspecting his surroundings, his “house”; and when a chair is out of place, making the room look disorderly, we can be certain...

Order and discipline must be aimed at the attainment of human harmony, and any act that hinders the establishment of a genuine community of all...

Before a child reaches the age of three, the highest form of work and the most ennobling that engages him is that of arranging furniture and putting...