But the child too is a worker and a producer. If he cannot take part in the adult's work, he has his own, a great, important, difficult work indeed -...

The most pertinent, which seemed like a magic touch opening the gates to an expansion of normal characteristics, is a consistent activity concentrated...

Thus the earliest traces of man's life on earth are not his homes or houses, bones or remains, but the implements of his work. It may be said that man...

This means that it is not enough to set the child among objects in proportion to his size and strength; the adult who is to help him must have learned...

Now what we need to know is the character of the child's work. When a little child works he does not do so to attain an outward end. The aim of his...

But the child too is a worker and a producer. If he cannot take part in the adult's work, he has his own, a great, important, difficult work indeed -...

Among the revelations the child has brought us, there is one of fundamental importance, the phenomenon of normalisation through work.

But in our specially prepared environments we see them all at once fix themselves upon some task, and then their excited fantasies and their restless...

Nature conditions the child otherwise than the young of animals. She leaves the realm of movement free from the imperious despotism of instinct...

Now the little child who manifests perseverance in his work as the first constructive act of his psychical life, and upon this act builds up internal...