When a child who can write is confronted with a word which he has to read and interpret, he is silent for some time and usually reads the component...

The chief characteristic of the human babe is intelligence, unlike the other animals who only need to awaken the instincts towards their behaviour....

There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from...

The discovery that the child has a mind able to absorb on its own account produces a revolution in education. We can now understand easily why the...

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...

If the idea of the universe be presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than just arouse his interest, for it will create in...