sandpaper letters.
(_o_) Two alphabets of colored cardboard and
of different sizes.
(_p_) A series of cards on which are pasted sandpaper
figures (1, 2, 3, etc.).
(_q_) A series of large cards bearing the same
figures in smooth paper for the enumeration
of numbers above ten.
(_r_) Two boxes with small sticks for counting.
(_s_) The volume of drawings belonging specially
to the method, and colored pencils.
(_t_) The frames for lacing, buttoning, etc., which
are used for the education of the movements
of the hand.

MOTOR EDUCATION

The education of the movements is very complex, as it must correspond
to all the coordinated movements which the child has to establish in
his physiological organism. The child, if left without guidance, is
disorderly in his movements, and these disorderly movements are the
_special characteristic of the little child._ In fact, he "never keeps
still," and "touches everything." This is what forms the child's
so-called "unruliness" and "naughtiness."

The adult would deal with him by checking these movements, with the
monotonous and useless repetition "keep still." As a matter of fact,
in these movements the little one is seeking the very exercise which
will organize and coordinate the movements useful to man. We must,
therefore, desist from the useless attempt to reduce the child to a
state of immobility. We should rather give "order" to his movements,
leading them to those actions towards which his efforts are actually
tending. This is the aim of muscular education at this age. Once a
direction is given to them, the child's movements are made towards a
definite end, so that he himself grows quiet and contented, and
becomes an active worker, a being calm and full of joy. This education
of the movements is one of the principal factors in producing that
outward appearance of "discipline" to be found in the "Children's
Houses." I have already spoken at length on this subject in my other
books.

Muscular education has reference to:

The primary movements of everyday life (walking, rising, sitting,
handling objects).
The care of the person.
Management of the household.
Gardening.
Manual work.
Gymnastic exercises.
Rhythmic movements.

[Illustration: FIG. 3.--FRAMES FOR LACING AND BUTTONING.]

In the care of the person the first step is that of dressing and
undressing. For this