Favourable conditions came to be realised. A very rare thing. Indeed, because, though it is often said that parents or teachers should leave the...

Gradually, we came to recognise the child’s love for order and witnessed its surprising memory of the exact position of each object.

Especially then, when the child’s need of activity was not understood, any mother would have said: ‘Now you are clean, that is enough, stop’. But...

Another thing which at the time seemed strange was the need for order which developed in the children. They put everything back in its proper place.

We dealt with the matter of teaching them to comb their hair and to dress themselves. This was indeed an enormous success. Having learned to button...

Then certain little facts happened which impressed me. For example, the children showed a very great love for cleanliness. They had been taught by us...

Discovery concerns something which, though already in existence, for one reason or another has remained hidden from human consciousness. In this case...

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...

This special type of school was christened with the charming name of Casa dei Bambini, Children's House. The first of these was opened on January 6...