We, as adults, must play a new role – we must understand that instead of helping the child we only hinder him if we try to mold him directly.
These children are not to be treated as in other schools, where we begin by examining how they are taught, whether they understand, and if they are...
... the environment is fundamental; it must facilitate the expansion of the being in process of development by a reduction of obstacles to a minimum...
And in these qualities of the child, she sees man as he ought to be: the worker who never tires, because what drives him on is a perennial enthusiasm...
The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is...
We ourselves have lost this deep and vital sensitiveness, and in the presence of children in whom we see it reviving, we feel as if we were watching a...
The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step. He will go on piling up finished...
The law of nature is order, and when order comes of itself, we know that we have re-entered the order of the universe. It is clear that nature...
The teacher's happy task is to show them the path to perfection, furnishing the means and removing the obstacles, beginning with those which she...
Pagination
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