The second period, six to twelve, is a peaceful period of a singular regularity. This age is a time of rest. The child of six is different from the...

It is their [second plane children’s] conscience that stands out most and of great interest is what is good, just or unjust. They have a keen feeling...

It is not enough to provide material for the child to work in school. He demands to go out into the world. Besides material, the school should...

We might say that the younger children take in things sensorially. The child of seven enters the abstract field, he wishes to know reasons. It is...

In a school we were carrying out experiments in biology; there was an aquarium that was accessible to children from three to nine years. One morning...

At seven years begins a physical and psychological change. The child of seven has a different psychic attitude. Physically nature puts a sign that is...

... the child of seven years must have other kinds of social experiences. We can say that up to seven years the experiences have been in a small...

Indeed we have come to the conclusion that the basis of all culture should be given in this period from seven years to adolescence. I mentioned the...

… we have learnt from him certain fundamental principles of psychology. One is that the child must learn by his own individual activity, being given a...

The laws governing the universe can be made interesting and wonderful to the child, more interesting even than things in themselves, and he begins to...