"The parent knows that the child cannot be……" — Joseph Chilton Pearce
"The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent."
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17 Quotes by Joseph Chilton Pearce
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- We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.
- We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of…
- Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express…
- What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our…
- We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement…
- Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions
- Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed…
- We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.
- For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we…
- Women have millions of years of genetically-enc oded intelligences, intuitions, capacities, knowledges, powers, and cellular knowings of exactly what to…
- All children want to do is play in worlds they create and project on their external world. If allowed to…
- We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow…
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