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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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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these…
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When I pick up one of my children and cuddle them, all the strain and stress of life temporarily disappears. There is…
— Nicola Horlick
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To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."
— Robert Breault
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People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the…
— Robert Bloch
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When a mother asked her small child how he fell out of bed, he answered, "Because I wasn't in far enough." Let…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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A small child has no ambitions, he has no desires. He is so absorbed in the moment - a bird on the…
— Rajneesh
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My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You…
— Unknown Author
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A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure…
— Abdoulaye Wade
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Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought!…
— Lewis Thomas
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There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able…
— Peter Gay
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Egolessness is contentment. Egoless, you don't expect anything, and just a small child smiles at you, but it is so beautiful. What…
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