Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two 'languages.' It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.