To make it clear whether or not a child has understood, we should see whether he can form a vision of it within the mind, whether he has gone beyond...

The sensory education which prepares for the accurate perception of all the differential details in the qualities of things, is therefore the...

...by offering the child the story of the universe, we give him something a thousand times more infinite and mysterious to reconstruct with his...

Now what is it that strikes the imagination? Above all, grandeur and, next, mystery. The imagination is then able to reconstruct the whole when it...

...to give the whole of modern culture has become an impossibility and so a need arises for a special method, whereby all factors of culture may be...

The child should love everything that he learns, for his mental and emotional growths are linked. Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful...

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...

This strength of imagination in the child under six is usually expended on toys and fairy tales, but surely we can give him real things to imagine...

The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming...

The secret of success is found to lie in the right use of imagination in awakening interest, and the stimulation of seeds of interest already sown by...