The child does not work in order to move or in order to become intelligent. He works to adapt to his environment. It is essential that he has many...

It is not that man must develop in order to work, but that man must work in order to develop. The work of the hand is the expression of psychic growth...

The exercises, which children do, help their adaptation to the environment. The first adaptation to the environment is to become conscious of it. To...

The second period, six to twelve, is a peaceful period of a singular regularity. This age is a time of rest. The child of six is different from the...

If we wish to be the interpreter of the child, we must realise that we are studying an unconscious phenomenon. Before consciousness arrives, there is...

The child is a worker and a diligent observer. He looks straight at things; he stares at them for a long time; he is interested in learning all he...

The child has the capacity to educate himself, not in typical schools with their exact syllabuses where children must be obedient, but at a school...

The impressive revelation was the fact that small children can do a greater quantity of work with greater perfection than older ones. And the younger...

I found that they [little children] used the material with great attention and for a long time; they showed interest, a spontaneous interest. But why...

I have observed that the child, on condition that he is granted the freedom to work, learns, becomes cultured, absorbs knowledge and gains...