Life alone can say: 'In my service is perfect freedom!' Work as the cosmic expression is ever a necessity of life and a joy; its shirking means...

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience ‘work’.

In each sphere there is essential work to be done; the work of the adult and the work of the child are both essential for the life of humanity.

He needs not only to touch things and to work with them, but to follow a sequence of actions to its completion, and this is of the greatest importance...

The children find joy, satisfaction and exhilaration in work. More work seems to produce more restfulness. After much energy has been spent in doing...

It is a recognised fact that this is an age of maximum effort, which should be supported, and further that children show an instinct of imitation.

A child who has become master of his acts through long and repeated exercises, and who has been encouraged by the pleasant and interesting activities...

The satisfaction which they find in their work has given them a grace and ease like that which comes from music.

Before a child reaches the age of three, the highest form of work and the most ennobling that engages him is that of arranging furniture and putting...

By a habit of work a child learns how to move his muscles more than he does through ordinary gymnastic exercises.