The great benefit we can bestow on childhood is the exercise of restraint in ourselves.
We do not know this spontaneous being: the child who tries to work constantly. If we did not recognise him as such before, it was because we put...
Favourable conditions came to be realised. A very rare thing. Indeed, because, though it is often said that parents or teachers should leave the...
You may say that you know how to respect the child, and that perhaps is true but in a moral and theoretical way. I mean it literally: children must...
Those who say it is our duty to keep the child in blind obedience, that we have a right to correct, and that in consequence the child will become...
I feel that it is a difficult path that we are following, and we must seek out someone who can teach us something more practical. This ‘someone’ who...
Here we are mistaken. We treat these children as objects, ordering them about, placing them here and there, and forcing them to fit into our world...
At the present stage of civilisation one of the most imminent perils is that of going against nature’s law in the education of the child, to suffocate...
We, as adults, must play a new role – we must understand that instead of helping the child we only hinder him if we try to mold him directly.
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