All the great men the world has ever had, in music, poetry, science etc., have all been children. We don’t know what the child will become, but he...

Even though I have studied this question for a long time, I am continually surprised. I understand more and more how advanced and able small children...

If the children are free, we can see how they have this great desire, not only to eat and play, but for something elevating. Right from the beginning...

Every detail of a child’s life has rules, mysterious laws. Every detail is of importance, so we must respect everything, even if it does not seem...

When I say that we must take the child as our teacher you will probably object, saying we must educate the child and give him all sorts of...

Before we can give help, we must understand; we must follow the path from childhood to adulthood. If we can understand, we can help and this help...

Our aim is to study the child from this new point of view. With this change in our hearts we will want to study him in all his different phases, to...

We need to change our attitude and see the greatness of the child’s achievements rather than the small and dry leaves of his errors (errors we have...

’But,’ I can hear you say, ‘shall we leave our children to do as they like? How can they know what is best for them when they have had no experience...

The teacher should possess this same faith [in the child]. In fact, he should become imbued by it so that he may contemplate with the same hope any...