We must study the psychology of each different period of life. In doing this we cannot give an idea of linear progression. There are different...

When the independent life of the child is not recognised with its own characteristics and its own ends, when the adult man interprets these...

If a child meets certain difficulties in his work the other children never spontaneously help him.... But if there is an accident when help is really...

Discovery concerns something which, though already in existence, for one reason or another has remained hidden from human consciousness. In this case...

Adult and child work in entirely different ways. The adult works on the environment and transforms it to suit himself with definite ends in view. The...

A teacher must therefore be well acquainted with the material and keep it constantly before her mind. She must acquire a precise knowledge of the...

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 understands and believes that the children must be free to choose their own occupations just as they must never be interrupted in their...