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To learn a thing in life and through doing is much more developing, cultivating and strengthening than to learn...

My life and work with my pupils was at first very limited, for it consisted merely in living, going...

The young child feels already that he is a part of the whole world and belongs to the whole...

In all that he does, even in his play with stones and bits of wood, he is painting and...

[My kindergarten] will be an institution where children instruct and educate themselves and where they develop and integrate all...

A parent should tell the child only what he cannot find out for himself. It is of course easier...

The young child twists and turns [the object], picks it to pieces of tries to bite it. We shout...

At this age play is never trivial; it is serious and deeply significant. It needs to be cherished and...

We must escape the delusion that insight [into things] is denied to the child and that they lack judgement....

Notice how much questionning, examining, weighing and comparing is expressed in the child’s gaze… a sign of the mind’s...