The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is...

We ourselves have lost this deep and vital sensitiveness, and in the presence of children in whom we see it reviving, we feel as if we were watching a...

A teacher must therefore be well acquainted with the material and keep it constantly before her mind. She must acquire a precise knowledge of the...

In her duty of guiding a child in using the material, a teacher must make a distinction between two different periods. In the first she puts the child...

The teacher must undertake a twofold study: she must have a good knowledge of the work she is expected to do and of the function of the material, that...

The teacher...must be able to make prudent observations, to assist a child by going up to, or withdrawing from, him, and by speaking or keeping...

She must learn that it is not easy to help, nor even, perhaps, to stand still and watch. Even when helping and serving the children, she must not...

The duty of the teacher is only to present new things when she knows that a child has exhausted all the possibilities of those he was using before.

In our schools the environment itself teaches the children. The teacher only puts the child in direct contact with the environment, showing him how to...

Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.