During this early period, education must be understood as a help to the unfolding of the child's inborn psychic powers. This means that we cannot use...

The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form part of...

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing...

He learns everything without knowing he is learning it, and in doing so he passes little by little from the unconscious to the conscious, treading...

There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from...

How can we be the judge of what will interest the little child? We must put ourselves at his disposal. All past ideas are thus reversed, and the...

The discovery that the child has a mind able to absorb on its own account produces a revolution in education. We can now understand easily why the...

Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.

In those mysterious places of the brain is a god, a sleeping self, who seems to be awakened by the music of the human voice, a divine call, setting...