Every external object and still more every external activity which hinders that frail and hidden impulse which, even though it is still unknown, acts...

...a child should be left free to choose the objects he wishes. The more the obstacles that stand between a child and the object to which his soul...

There is therefore a formative period in which the actions have no external scope or application. We find analogous facts connected with the...

Work for a child must possess some variety within itself. A child does not have to know the reasons for sowing or reaping to have his interest aroused...

I will not extinguish any fire, any greatness, any enthusiasm. On the contrary, I wish to illuminate the whole of instruction so that every little...

When children experience pleasure not only from an activity leading towards a special goal but also in carrying it out exactly in all its details...

A child learns to adjust himself and make acquisitions in his sensitive periods. These are like a beam that lights interiorly or a battery that...

The essential thing is for the task to arouse such an interest that it engages the child's whole personality.

How can we be the judge of what will interest the little child? We must put ourselves at his disposal. All past ideas are thus reversed, and the...

… the individual thinks more about the success of his group than of his own personal success.