The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.
Of all things love is the most potent.
The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.
Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.
To consider the school as a place where instruction is given is one point of view. But, to consider the school as a preparation for life is another. In the latter case, the school must satisfy all the needs of life.
A child needs freedom within limits.
...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.
There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.
A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
If we really want children to grow into independent and resourceful adults, we should stop pouring their milk as soon as they have learned to pour it themselves and stop fastening their buttons as soon as they can fasten them without help.
Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.
Within the child lies the fate of the future.
Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.
The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.
At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by his intense attention, by his perseverance in the same exercise. That child has set foot upon the road leading to discipline.
This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving in return his gifts of hope and light.
Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.
A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In this regard an adult can have a kind of mission. He can be an inspiration for the child's actions, a kind of open book wherein a child can learn how to direct his own movements. But an adult, if he is to afford proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.
Children become like the things they love.
Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover.
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