There is no punishment or reward in our schools to interfere with the joy in the work itself. The only reward is in the completion of the work – it is...

Especially then, when the child’s need of activity was not understood, any mother would have said: ‘Now you are clean, that is enough, stop’. But...

Later on the children themselves will tend to become careless in the exact performance of their movements. Their interest in developing the...

Children are so responsive that if you treat your child with kindness and consideration he too will be kind. If you let him pursue his own little...

A child does not know why he is interested in a particular object or movement at a particular moment – the important thing is that he is interested...

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...