The apparent fatigue of the child between the first and second period of work is interesting; at that moment the aspect of the child is not calm and...

I have observed for myself the exuberance, the generosity with which the nature of the child responds to scientific education. This observation left...

The child does not follow the law of the least effort, but a law directly contrary. He uses an immense amount of energy over an unsubstantial end, and...

The child feels the need to repeat this exercise not in order to perfect his performance but in order to build up his own inner being, and the time...

It is the child who builds up the man, the child alone. The adult cannot take his place in this work; the exclusion of the adult from the child's...

If from the new-born baby, helpless, unconscious...unable to raise itself, comes forth the individual adult with perfected form, with a mind enriched...

What...puts the child in the position of a real worker is that he does not fulfil the pattern of the man-to-be-made only through meditation and rest...

When work has become a habit, the intellectual level rises rapidly, and organised order causes good conduct to become a habit. Children then work with...

It is through exercise that the child grows; his constructive activity is a real work which flows materially from his outer environment. The child in...

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