A child, who more than anyone else is a spontaneous observer of nature, certainly needs to have at his disposal material upon which he can work.

We had seen that nature prepares indirectly the embryo; she issues no orders until the organs have been prepared for obedience. Character can be built...

Children indeed love flowers, but they need to do something more than remain among them and contemplate their coloured blossoms. They find their...

A teacher is destined by his own special work to observe not simply insects or protozoa but man. And the man he is destined to observe is not one busy...

We must create in the soul of the teacher a general interest in the manifestation of natural phenomena until he comes to the point where he loves and...

We may define a scientist as one who during the course of an experiment has perceived something that leads to a further investigation of the profound...

The concept of an education centred upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable,...

But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is also necessary for his psychical life...

No toys for children, but houses for them; not toys for them, but land on which they can work with small tools; not dolls for children, but real other...

The educator must be as one inspired by a deep worship of life, and must, through this reverence, respect, while he observes with human interest, the...