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Introduction
Cosmic education
Cosmic task and purpose
Human tendencies
Independence
Liberty
Absorbent mind
Auto-education
Concentration
Concrete to abstract
Creativity and imagination
Cultural adaptation
Development of the will
Deviations
Discipline from within
False fatigue
Learning explosions
Mathematical mind
Maximum effort
Obedience
Self-construction
Sensitive periods
Valorization of the personality
Analysis of movement
Cycle of activity
Freedom within limits
Help from the periphery
Indirect preparation
Mixed ages
Obstacles
Control of error
Exercises of practical life
Grace and courtesy
Production and exchange
Sensorial materials
Abstraction and imagination (human tendency)
Activity (human tendency)
Child-directed work
Collective stage
Communication (human tendency)
Concentration — repetition — self-perfection (human tendency)
Conscious worker
Coordination of movement
Creative expression
Economic independence
Engrams
Erdkinder
Exactness and precision (human tendency)
Exploration (human tendency)
First plane of development
Formalization
Formative years
Fourth plane of development
Free choice
Horme
Humanistic education
Incarnation
Indirect presentation
Isolation of a difficulty
Moral development
Mneme
Order
Order (human tendency)
Orientation (human tendency)
Planes of development
Points of interest
Prepared environment
Presentation
Repetition
Second plane of development
Self-preservation and self-development (human tendency)
Seminar
Simple to complex
Social organization
Social cohesion
Social newborn
Sound games
Spontaneous activity
Third plane of development
Three-hour work cycle
Unconscious creation
Vocabulary enrichment
Work
Work of the head and hand
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