All the great men the world has ever had, in music, poetry, science etc., have all been children. We don’t know what the child will become, but he...

It is not that man must develop in order to work, but that man must work in order to develop. The work of the hand is the expression of psychic growth...

The hands help the development of the intellect. When a child is capable of using his hands, he can have a quantity of experiences in the environment...

If we study movement we will see that, while animals have their movements determined right from the beginning of their life, it is a characteristic of...

We must understand that anything which animates the child is a help to his development.

Language is one of the most striking things he absorbs – one of the characteristics of man – but later he absorbs everything. He becomes a living...

If education is to be based on what we know of little children, we must first understand their development.

These three periods, from birth to six, from six to twelve, and from twelve to eighteen, are clearly distinguishable from one another, in terms of...

Education must begin from birth. It must understand the psychological development of man. It must know of the great psychic energy of man.

We call it material for the development of the senses, but sense development is merely the consequence of the urge to do something with the hands. The...