ABSTRACT
Given the fact that, through the regime of liberty the pupils can manifest their natural tendencies in the school, and that with this in view we have prepared the environment and the materials, the teacher must not limit her action to observation, but must proceed to experiment. The teacher must at least have attended the training classes in the Children's Houses, in order to acquire a knowledge of the fundamental principles of the method and to understand their application. The lessons, then, are individual, and brevity must be one of their chief characteristics. Teachers ordinarily are greatly surprised at such simplicity. In regard to infant psychology, we are inore richly endowed with prejudices than with actual knowledge bearing upon the subject. We have, until the present day, wished to dominate the child through force, by the imposition of external laws, instead of making an interior conquest of the child, in order to direct him as a human soul.
