This kind of activity (climbing, carrying etc), which serves no external purpose, gives children the practice they need for co-ordinating their...

The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the outside world and to absorb it.... By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own...

In the mysterious period which follows immediately after birth, the child -who is a psychic entity endowed with a specially refined form of...

...the tiny child's absorbent mind finds all its nutriment in its surroundings. Here it has to locate itself, and build itself up from what it takes...

Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods with their respective mechanisms. It...

It begins with a knowledge of his surroundings. How does the child assimilate his environment? He does it solely in virtue of one of those...

Not only does he create his language, but he shapes the organs that enable him to frame the words. He has to make the physical basis of every moment...

During this early period, education must be understood as a help to the unfolding of the child's inborn psychic powers.

...at birth all children are alike, and need the same treatment or education during the stage of embryonic growth, of mental incarnation.

Psychically speaking, at birth there is nothing at all—zero! Indeed, not only psychically, for at birth the child is almost paralytic... These great...