One can test a child's memory for colours by having him look at one colour and then advising him to go and choose a similar colour from a distant...

Any object that we wish to use for the education of the senses must necessarily present many different qualities such as weight, texture, colour, form...

When we speak of “environment” we include the sum total of objects which a child can freely choose and use as he pleases, that is to say, according to...

The reactions of children to various objects, the way in which, and the frequency with which, they used them, and the advantages which they derived...

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...

...it is not imitation. This may be shown even in the way that the child uses the material: he becomes so attentive to what he is doing and so...

It is true that the teacher supervises the children, but there are various things that “call” the children at different ages. Indeed, the brilliancy...

Children as a rule have different desires at any particular moment, and one keeps busy at one thing and another at another without quarrelling. In...

This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account a child's special...

The children must be attached to the material; if they are attached to the teacher they cannot be independent.