In her duty of guiding a child in using the material, a teacher must make a distinction between two different periods. In the first she puts the child...

The teacher must undertake a twofold study: she must have a good knowledge of the work she is expected to do and of the function of the material, that...

The teacher...must be able to make prudent observations, to assist a child by going up to, or withdrawing from, him, and by speaking or keeping...

She must learn that it is not easy to help, nor even, perhaps, to stand still and watch. Even when helping and serving the children, she must not...

Only after a child has begun to write on his own should a teacher intervene to guide his progress in writing.

The teacher keeps watch so that a child who is absorbed in his work is not disturbed by one of his companions. This office of being the ‘guardian...

The teacher becomes the keeper and custodian of the environment. She attends to this instead of being distracted by the children's restlessness. From...

When the child is attentive to his great work, he must respect the fact and not disturb him with either praise or correction.

...the teacher must know and experience in her daily life the secret of childhood. Through this she arrives not only at a deeper knowledge, but at a...

The duty of the teacher is only to present new things when she knows that a child has exhausted all the possibilities of those he was using before.