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- Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as…
- Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that…
- Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength, and the perfecting…
- 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 can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.
- Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence…
- It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.
- The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.
- Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.
- All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.
- Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles have only been confirmed, and along with them…
- There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies, but the first…
- Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.
- Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization, and before such…
- Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.
- Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
- The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society.
- Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.
- Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.
- Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved…
- The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
- If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
- We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
- The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer:…
- If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To…
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