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 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 this period she must take care never to turn her back on the class while she is dealing with a single child. Her presence must be felt by all these...

In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet; they...