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We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That…

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To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.
Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as…
Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities…
Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It…
Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength,…
The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.
We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced…
Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.
By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only…

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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is… — Wendell Berry
We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it. — Claude Shannon
What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know. — Bertrand Russell
Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know… — Marianne Williamson
Parents of handicapped children are occasionally embarrassed or hurt by others who awkwardly express sympathy but cannot know or appreciate the depth… — James E. Faust
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all… — Henri Poincare
We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire… — Jules Renard
Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere. — Seneca the Younger
If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result… — John B. S. Haldane
I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided… — Bertrand Russell
It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of… — John Steinbeck
There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these… — Roger Bacon

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