The child who has to sit still listening to a teacher is in the worst possible state of mind and body for learning. Likewise, the child whose life at...

The child who has to sit still listening to a teacher is in the worst possible state of mind and body for learning. Likewise, the child whose life at...

We do not teach the children these things [practical life activities] to make little servants of them, but because we have observed that of their own...

The children love to do these things [practical life activities] for themselves and they learn to be careful and precise in their movements. This...

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...

Later on the children themselves will tend to become careless in the exact performance of their movements. Their interest in developing the...

It is through movement that the child arrives at understanding music. It is not only by playing and singing for the child that this happens; he must...

It is movement that interests the child in music, and it is by movement that the very tiny child can arrive at understanding music with considerable...

The most difficult thing, as teachers know, is not to move. It is more difficult not to move than to move well; for this reason, children must have...

When we give the child the possibility to fix his attention in an orderly fashion upon some objects which also permit a motor exercise, we give such...