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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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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
— Hannah Arendt
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Perception is reality.
— Lee Atwater
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We live on the leash of our senses.
— Diane Ackerman
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All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.
— Konrad Adenauer
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
— Ray Bradbury
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The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
— Anton Chekhov
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Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense…
— Maya Angelou
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Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between…
— Carl Rogers
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Somaaesthetics can be provisionally defined a the critical meliorative study of one's experience and use of one's body as a locus of…
— Richard Shusterman
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I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other way to…
— Mitch Hedberg
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The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and…
— Richard Shusterman
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