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- No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention…
- We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty…
- Why do people take or keep their children out of school? Mostly for three reasons: they think that raising their children is their business not…
- We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach it to them,…
- The idea of painless, nonthreatening coercion is an illusion. Fear is the inseparable companion of coercion, and its inescapable consequence. If you think it your…
- Schools assume that children are not interested in learning and are not much good at it, that they will not learn unless made to, that…
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