Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

With the Montessori geometric insets, he could enjoy this hole play, and, at the same time, learn, through feeling, to recognize very fine differences in height and breadth.

the little man wanted, but a chance to use his fingers in learning to recognize the qualities of objects; rough, soft, smooth, stiff.

It is
our privilege to turn child mischief into education. Instead of taking away from children the objects which they select for handling, we must study those objects and substitute for them didactic materials for education of the tactile sense, the sense of weight, the sense of form and contour.

Our children are born into a world of which
they know nothing. They are discoverers, travelers touching an unknown shore, and the first business of their new-found life is to adjust themselves to their environment.

softness and roughness, smoothness and coarseness.

They are to arouse and awake into activity habits of quick perception, keen appreciation, and constructive invention.

we will have developed an observer who knows how to use his senses in the practical living of life.

there were sixty-four of these flat, white wooden spools, wound with eight colors and eight of each color, showing almost all the grading of color that makes this old earth of ours so lovely.

Some of us steal bread when we are hungry. Some of us steal love when we are famished for it. Children steal because we or the world have starved them of something which they crave for their natural, best development of body, mind, or soul

Every child is color hungry.