Contents

1. Introduction

2. Glossary

   1. Absorbent mind

   2. Abstraction and imagination (human tendency)

   3. Activity (human tendency)

   4. Analysis of movement

   5. Auto-education

   6. Child-directed work

   7. Collective stage

   8. Communication (human tendency)

   9. Concentration

   10. Concentration — repetition — self-perfection (human tendency)

   11. Concrete to abstract

   12. Conscious worker

   13. Control of error

   14. Coordination of movement

   15. Cosmic education

   16. Cosmic task and purpose

   17. Creative expression

   18. Creativity and imagination

   19. Cultural adaptation

   20. Cycle of activity

   21. Development of the will

   22. Deviation

   23. Discipline from within

   24. Economic independence

   25. Engrams

   26. Erdkinder

   27. Exactness and precision (human tendency)

   28. Exercises of practical life

   29. Exploration (human tendency)

   30. False fatigue

   31. First plane of development

   32. Formalization

   33. Formative years

   34. Fourth plane of development

   35. Free choice

   36. Freedom within limits

   37. Grace and courtesy

   38. Help from the periphery

   39. Horme

   40. Humanistic education

   41. Human tendencies

   42. Incarnation

   43. Independence

   44. Indirect preparation

   45. Indirect presentation

   46. Isolation of a difficulty

   47. Learning explosions

   48. Liberty

   49. Mathematical mind

   50. Maximum effort

   51. Mixed ages

   52. Moral development

   53. Mneme

   54. Obedience

   55. Obstacles

   56. Order

   57. Order (human tendency)

   58. Orientation (human tendency)

   59. Planes of development

   60. Points of interest

   61. Prepared environment

   62. Presentation

   63. Production and exchange

   64. Repetition

   65. Second plane of development

   66. Self-construction

   67. Self-preservation and self-development (human tendency)

   68. Seminar

   69. Sensitive periods

   70. Sensorial materials

   71. Simple to complex

   72. Social organization

   73. Social cohesion

   74. Social newborn

   75. Sound games

   76. Spontaneous activity

   77. Third plane of development

   78. Three-hour work cycle

   79. Unconscious creation

   80. Valorization of the personality

   81. Vocabulary enrichment

   82. Work

   83. Work of the head and hand