But the child who chooses the objects and perseveres in their use with the utmost intensity of attention, as shown in the muscular contractions which...
The phenomenon to be expected from the little child, when he is placed in an environment favourable to his spiritual growth, is this: that suddenly...
When work has become a habit, the intellectual level rises rapidly, and organised order causes good conduct to become a habit. Children then work with...
These children reveal to us the most vital need of their development, saying: “Help me to do it alone!”
Education should... include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience...
The child of this age sets out to do a certain task, perhaps an absurd one to adult reasoning, but this matters not at all; he must carry out the...
The muscles should always serve the intellect and thus preserve their functional unity with the human personality. If [an adult] is an intelligent...
The child has to acquire physical independence by being self-sufficient; he must become of independent will by using in freedom his own power of...
Behold a child of three years old capable of repeating the same exercise fifty times in succession; many persons are moving about beside him; some one...
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