There can be no doubt of the fact that a child absorbs an enormous number of impressions from his environment and that external help given to this...

A teacher must busy herself with finding more and more new names to satisfy the insatiable demands of her young charges. This craving which is...

We thus began to communicate with each other through written language; and this proved to be most interesting to the children. They gradually...

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

When a child who can write is confronted with a word which he has to read and interpret, he is silent for some time and usually reads the component...

Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of...

The most favourable age for the development of written language is that of childhood, about the age of four, when the natural processes connected with...

...if men had only used speech to communicate their thought, if their wisdom had been expressed in words alone, no traces would remain of past...