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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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Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
— Honore de Balzac
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We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.
— Amber Valletta
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Whenever we make changes in our surroundings, we can too easily shortchange ourselves, by cutting ourselves off from some of the sights…
— Tony Hiss
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People need immediate places to refresh, reinvent themselves. Our surroundings built and natural alike, have an immediate and a continuing effect on…
— Tony Hiss
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If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.
— Maya Lin
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A person influenced by circumstances can become viciously envious or affectionately kind. Our company and our surroundings have a crucial effect on…
— Radhanath Swami
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Why do we love certain homes, and why do they seem to love us? It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected…
— T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
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Curiosity’s primal. Our senses scan our surroundings, alerting us most urgently about sudden change. Useful, that. Change can mean opportunity. It can…
— Julie Czerneda
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The purpose of fasting is to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world of material things and…
— Ole Hallesby
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Our surroundings are not contained by name and form. You are neither the body nor the mind, these are limits you identify…
— Jean Klein
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The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and…
— Richard M. Nixon
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...we must strike a balance so that the protection of our irreplaceable heritage becomes as important as its use. The price of…
— Richard M. Nixon
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