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...

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...

Here is the aim of the truly new education; first of all to discover the child and effect his liberation.

Thus by preparing an open environment, an environment suited to this moment of life, natural manifestation of the child's psyche and hence the...

The true educator is the man who rids himself of the inner obstacles which make the child incomprehensible to him; he is not simply the man who is...

To serve the children is to feel one is serving the spirit of man, a spirit which has to free itself.