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- Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
- Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.
- 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 for action, who…
- Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
- By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he…
- The child's conquest of independence begins with his first introduction to life. While he is developing, he perfects himself and overcomes every obstacle that he…
- The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.
- At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next…
- The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.
- Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious…
- Play is the work of the child.
- The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
- Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.
- The child becomes a person through work.
- The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.
- The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.
- To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.
- To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.
- 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…
- The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.
- It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.
- It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.
- When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing
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