The child’s sensibility to absorb language is so great that he can acquire foreign languages at this age [birth to three].

At this age (between one and a half and two and a half years) children have a need to develop independence.

The absorption of the environment is an intellectual activity. It is a psychic necessity that the child explores the environment; it satisfies his...

The attention of little children is continually being drawn to one thing or other on their walks. They stop to observe and admire things they see...

We must let the child walk and notice how he walks. His legs are short in comparison to ours and therefore he walks more slowly. Not only this, but...

When the child has mastered equilibrium he needs to practice it through exercise, so that his sense of balance may be perfected. It is only logical...

As soon as the child has acquired this form of independence [walking] he begins to carry heavy things and to do difficult things. We call it maximum...

Children need to carry heavy things at this age. It is necessary to their development. They are porters and like it immensely; for one and a half...

I have seen one-year-old children putting things away when they were finished with them, a piece of work which usually goes unnoticed. This sort of...

The child is like a newborn animal, because he cannot behave like the men around him. In the first two years the child’s behavior is like that of the...