Each is a self-contained whole, a seed from which manifold new developments may spring to cohere in further unity. They cover the whole field of intuitive and sensory instruction and lay the basis for all further teaching. The gifts are intended to give the child from time to time new universal aspects of the external world, suited to a child s development. The occupations, on the other hand, furnish material for practice in certain phases of the skill. Each gift should aid the child to make the external internal, the internal external, and to find the unity between the two.
Nothing comes without a struggle.
Strife creates nothing by itself, it only clears the air. New seeds must be planted to germinate and grow, if we will have the tree of humanity blossom . . . We cannot tear the present from the past or from the future. Past, present, and future are the Trinity of time. The destiny of nations lies far more in the hands of women, the mothers, than in the possessors of power, or those of innovators who for the most part do not understand themselves.