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- Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery…
- Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.
- The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain…
- But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him…
- Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.
- All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.
- It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.
- This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in a common aim,…
- The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form…
- At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof of conscious intelligenceHe…
- We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with each other to…
- Praise, help, or even a look, may be enough to interrupt him, or destroy the activity. It seems a strange thing to say, but this…
- A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In this regard an…
- Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing but live and…
- The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a…
- We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form…
- He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a…
- All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.
- The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.
- The child should love everything he learns. Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear. Once this love has been kindled, all…
- Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.
- The child endures all things.
- The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential
- There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to…
- The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect, but unless it…
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