In serving the child, one serves life; in helping nature one rises to the next stage, that of super-nature, for to go upward is a law of life. And it...
The child does not want to be told what to do or how to do it - he defends himself from such help. Choice and execution are the prerogatives and...
Before such attention and concentration have been attained, the teacher must learn to control herself so that the child's spirit shall be free to...
Praise, help, or even a look, may be enough to interrupt him, or destroy the activity. It seems a strange thing to say, but this can happen even if...
The child whose attention has once been held by a chosen object, while he concentrates his whole self on the repetition of the exercise, is a...
In this period she must take care never to turn her back on the class while she is dealing with a single child. Her presence must be felt by all these...
Let us always remember that inner discipline is something to come, and not something already present. Our task is to show the way to discipline...
Our teachers thus penetrate the secret of childhood, and have a knowledge far superior to that of the ordinary teacher who becomes acquainted only...
We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit. It is the...
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