The adult must not interfere, must not act instead of the child. Give him the means and let him act: his freedom consists of this.
We say this to the teachers in training who enter the Children’s House. ‘Stand by, remain silent, and do not speak a word to the children, do not...
We do not know this spontaneous being: the child who tries to work constantly. If we did not recognise him as such before, it was because we put...
Favourable conditions came to be realised. A very rare thing. Indeed, because, though it is often said that parents or teachers should leave the...
You may say that you know how to respect the child, and that perhaps is true but in a moral and theoretical way. I mean it literally: children must...
Those who say it is our duty to keep the child in blind obedience, that we have a right to correct, and that in consequence the child will become...
Here we are mistaken. We treat these children as objects, ordering them about, placing them here and there, and forcing them to fit into our world...
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...
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