The muscles should always serve the intellect and thus preserve their functional unity with the human personality. If [an adult] is an intelligent...
Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of...
This kind of activity (climbing, carrying etc), which serves no external purpose, gives children the practice they need for co-ordinating their...
The first idea that a child must acquire on order to be actively disciplined is the difference between right and wrong; and it is the duty of the...
Nevertheless the exercises of practical life cannot be regarded as a simple kind of gymnastics; they are “work”. But the work is refreshing and not...
It would seem to me that children are very well disciplined indeed when they can all move around in a room in a useful, intelligent, and free fashion...
Through practical exercises...the children develop a true “social feeling,” for they are working in the environment of the community in which they...
Starting from this state of order, the movements of the children daily become more perfect and coordinated. They learn to reflect upon their own...
Every complex action comprises a series of distinct movements; one act follows the other. The analysis of movements consists in trying to recognise...
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