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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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At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his…
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and…
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But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is…
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The only initiation which I advocate and which I look for with all the ardor of my Soul, is that by which…
— Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
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Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter,…
— Samuel Beckett
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As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as…
— David Shi
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No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this…
— Thomas Carlyle
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