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To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.
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Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
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Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as…
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Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities…
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Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
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Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It…
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Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength,…
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The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.
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We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced…
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Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
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Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.
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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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I had several different bosses during the early years of 'Dilbert.' They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else.
— Scott Adams
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I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into…
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When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one…
— John Henrik Clarke
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How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor…
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But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit,…
— Helen Hunt
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In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
— Joan Didion
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Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education…
— Bob Ehrlich
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Prepare yourselves mentally. A mission requires a great deal of mental preparation. You must memorize missionary discussions, memorize scriptures, and oftentimes learn…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish…
— Daniel Nathans
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While we are born with curiosity and wonder and our early years full of the adventure they bring, I know such inherent…
— Sigurd F. Olson
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How you handle peer pressure - the pressure your children feel as well as the pressure you feel - in the early…
— Kevin Leman
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During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.
— Paul D. Boyer
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