The child does not follow the law of the least effort, but a law directly contrary. He uses an immense amount of energy over an unsubstantial end, and...

The child feels the need to repeat this exercise not in order to perfect his performance but in order to build up his own inner being, and the time...

It is the child who builds up the man, the child alone. The adult cannot take his place in this work; the exclusion of the adult from the child's...

If from the new-born baby, helpless, unconscious...unable to raise itself, comes forth the individual adult with perfected form, with a mind enriched...

What...puts the child in the position of a real worker is that he does not fulfil the pattern of the man-to-be-made only through meditation and rest...

If the adult, through a fatal misunderstanding, instead of helping the child to do things for himself, substitutes himself for the child, then that...

It is through exercise that the child grows; his constructive activity is a real work which flows materially from his outer environment. The child in...

But the child too is a worker and a producer. If he cannot take part in the adult's work, he has his own, a great, important, difficult work indeed -...

This means that it is not enough to set the child among objects in proportion to his size and strength; the adult who is to help him must have learned...

Now what we need to know is the character of the child's work. When a little child works he does not do so to attain an outward end. The aim of his...