In our schools we give the children small chairs and tables, so that they may move as masters in their own world instead of wrestling continually...

In a child’s surroundings there are always two factors, the human as well as the material one. And it is in the human factor that children with...

Have you ever seen a child, flushed with the new accomplishment of putting on his socks and shoes, dеliberately take them off in order to go through...

It is the ‘valorisation’ of the personality, to become aware of ones own value. Without this, as many psychologists say, the child only feels his own...

So we realise that in order to develop the individual needs to display effort, to exercise himself and not be dependent on others. Now this...

We can see clearly what is necessary to give in order to help the child. It is to give the possibility of independence, of living together and...

As the child learns to handle the materials carefully his delight grows, and eventually he can be trusted to dust the cupboard with the fragile...

Harmonious relation between adult and child does not depend only on their loving each other. Rather, mutual understanding and love depend on whether...

When the child has acquired this independence his relation to the adult is changed. He is sweeter and calmer. He no longer lives under a repression...

The adult must not interfere, must not act instead of the child. Give him the means and let him act: his freedom consists of this.