Language is one the characteristics which distinguish man from the animals. It is a gift of nature bestowed on him alone. It is an expression of his...

Spoken language is like a breath of air which can reach only the ear which happens to be close to it. That is why [human beings], from remotest...

Possession of the art of writing is not a mere skill, it represents the possession of a superior form of language added to its natural form. Written...

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...

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...

To put writing in its real and simple aspects, i.e. to connect it directly with the spoken language, is already in itself a practical step forward and...

The composition of words caused some real surprises. Children showed a great interest in the spoken language which they already possessed and sought...

Possession of the art of writing is not a mere skill, it represents the possession of a superior form of language added to its natural form. Written...

It was about six months later that they began to understand what reading meant, and they did so only through associating it with writing. Their eyes...