She must learn that it is not easy to help, nor even, perhaps, to stand still and watch. Even when helping and serving the children, she must not...

The teacher becomes the keeper and custodian of the environment. She attends to this instead of being distracted by the children's restlessness. From...

The little child’s first movements were instinctive. Now, he acts consciously and voluntarily, and with this comes an awakening of his spirit...

The teacher, in this first period, before concentration has shown itself, must be like the flame which heartens all by its warmth, enlivens and...

The didactic material must be always beautiful, shining and in good repair, with nothing missing, so that it looks new to the child, and is complete...

In our schools the environment itself teaches the children. The teacher only puts the child in direct contact with the environment, showing him how to...

Before such attention and concentration have been attained, the teacher must learn to control herself so that the child's spirit shall be free to...

The child whose attention has once been held by a chosen object, while he concentrates his whole self on the repetition of the exercise, is a...

Here is the aim of the truly new education; first of all to discover the child and effect his liberation.

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