Is it through work alone that a child develops.

Grown-ups think of play as a purposeless occupation that keeps children happy and out of mischief, but actually when children are left to play by...

The child does not follow the law of the least effort, but a law directly contrary. He uses an immense amount of energy over an unsubstantial end, and...

The child feels the need to repeat this exercise not in order to perfect his performance but in order to build up his own inner being, and the time...

The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step. He will go on piling up finished...

It is the child who builds up the man, the child alone. The adult cannot take his place in this work; the exclusion of the adult from the child's...

If from the new-born baby, helpless, unconscious...unable to raise itself, comes forth the individual adult with perfected form, with a mind enriched...

The little child who persists in his exercises, concentrated and absorbed, is obviously elaborating the constant man, the man of character, he who...

Man builds himself through working. Nothing can take the place of work, neither physical well-being nor affection, and, on the other hand, deviations...

What...puts the child in the position of a real worker is that he does not fulfil the pattern of the man-to-be-made only through meditation and rest...