Whenever possible, the child has a tendency to render himself independent of the help of others, especially of the adult. Then, in acquiring this...

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...

Especially then, when the child’s need of activity was not understood, any mother would have said: ‘Now you are clean, that is enough, stop’. But...

In the home, the ideal environment for the child should also contain child-sized furniture, and utensils which he can handle himself.

We dealt with the matter of teaching them to comb their hair and to dress themselves. This was indeed an enormous success. Having learned to button...

Then certain little facts happened which impressed me. For example, the children showed a very great love for cleanliness. They had been taught by us...

We, as adults, must play a new role – we must understand that instead of helping the child we only hinder him if we try to mold him directly.

Just as in the case of the solid insets, the control of error over such exercises [geometry cabinet] is absolute. A particular figure cannot be put...

...whenever possible, the child has a tendency to render himself independent of the help of others, especially of the adult. Then, in acquiring this...

So many childish activities seem trivial to grown-ups, but a child’s concentration is not a trivial thing. Break that often enough and he will suffer...