So, from the age of three till six, being able to now to tackle his environment deliberately and consciously, he begins a period of real...

It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he can become strong, and, having...

Obviously, the child must grow and establish certain functions as yet not fixed: e.g. in the first years the function of language, the organisation...

Education demands, then, only this: the utilisation of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.

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

The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

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...

The child's development follows a path of successive stages of independence, and our knowledge of this must guide us in our behaviour towards him. We...

It follows that the child can only develop fully by means of experience on his environment. We call such experience "work".

The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his "natural development". In other words, if we observe natural...