Can not Quote by John Dewey

“A child can only experience his feelings when there is someone there who fully accepts them, names them and supports them. Another consequence of…

— John Bradshaw

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

— Jane Smiley

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

— Maria Montessori

“Every observer has noted that the younger the child, the less sense he has of his own ego. From the intellectual point of view,…

— Jean Piaget

“The child must be given activities that encourage independence, and he must not be served by others in acts he can learn to perform…

— Paula Polk Lillard

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of…

— Maria Montessori

A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

I have a theory that no child ever does outgrow its ungratified legitimate desires; though subsequent maturity may bring him to the point where…

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.

— Maria Montessori

For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose intellectual development…

— Selma Fraiberg

The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives.

— Maria Montessori

We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself.…

— Maria Montessori