• Children’s language and the way they think are different from adults.
• Children need to handle different things to understand them.
• When coming across any experience, if children find much of prior acquaintance and something new in it, they get involved and learn from it.
• At any age, the intellectual competencies for children widely vary from one to another. So it is not as if all will find interest in the same things, nor that all will learn from the same thing.
• Let children have their freedom of acting individually. Let them make their own choices.
• Self-learning, self-discipline are important aspects of a child’s learning.
• There are steps to a child’s thinking ability and its development. At every step, it has some strengths and some weaknesses; a teacher must learn to respect both.
• If a child is not ready for any stage in its learning, its education should not be thrust on it.
• Allow children to talk freely in a class; let them ask questions; let them talk to each other and argue.
• Where there is social circulation based on physical movements, intellectual development of a child takes place.
• At a young age, all children do not learn equally at the same level; also they do not learn much through lectures or reading and writing.
• A teacher is expected to attend child-home to learn. Children themselves, their personalities, their behavior, their actions and reactions – these are all the tools for their learning.
• A teacher has to attend a child-home for assistance. Arranging the different learning tools for the children making necessary changes in them, looking after children’s bodily needs and keeping up a pleasant atmosphere – these are the chores for the assistant.
• A teacher attends the child-home to observe. How a child behaves, how it converses, how it plays, how it handles the learning tools, what interests it, what bores it, how it mixes with others, what makes it angry, sad or happy, how does it learn on its own – these are all the things he must constantly keep observing.
• A teacher attends a child-home - for children.
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